Ed Turner asked me to announce the following: If you hadn't already heard, we have been running without the use of the Nasmyth 2 guider camera, the one we use for SPIcam, GRIM, and DIS. It's being fixed by Photometrics, and we don't know when it's going to go back in service. It's possible that we may have it working by the end of this week, but this far from certain. This doesn't impact the observing much with our instruments except for SPIcam, and then only for medium and longish exposures where image drift can be a problem. If your exposures are short (a few minutes), your program may not be affected. If you believe that not having the guider for your SPIcam programs will seriously impact your science, we suggest you: o use a different instrument to do another approved program, or o trade your time with another astronomer within your institution, or o contact Ed Turner and me. We may be able to broker a trade within the broader ARC community. Bruce Gillespie APO APO APO APO APO Apache Point Observatory 3.5m APO APO APO APO APO This is message 412 in the apo35-general archive. You can find APO the archive on http://www.astro.princeton.edu/APO/apo35-general/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-general@astro.princeton.edu APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO