As those of you who read the night logs will have already noted, SPIcam stopped recording images on the night of 16 August. Unfortunately, a week-long attempt to diagnose and/or repair the problem at APO has not met with success, and it appears that there is a significant problem within the dewar. Thus, the SPIcam dewar is being shipped to UW tomorrow (22 August) where it will be repaired. Therefore, it appears likely that the instrument will be unavailable for a considerabvle period, at least a week and quite possibly longer. Procedures and options for dealing with the resultant schedule modifications will be announced on Monday or Tuesday (24 or 25 August). The purpose of this message is to alert those affected as early as possible. The instrument engineering staff at APO and the SPIcam instrument group at UW have worked long and hard to fix the problem already this week, and will continue to do so. We are very grateful for their efforts. Ed Turner Bruce Gillespie APO APO APO APO APO Apache Point Observatory 3.5m APO APO APO APO APO This is message 56 in the apo35-dsc archive. You can find APO the archive on http://www.astro.princeton.edu/APO/apo35-dsc/INDEX.html APO To join/leave the list, send mail to apo35-request@astro.princeton.edu APO To post a message, mail it to apo35-dsc@astro.princeton.edu APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO