Subject: SPIcam status

From: elt@astro.Princeton.EDU

Submitted: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 17:37:50 -0400 (EDT)

Message number: 57 (previous: 56, next: 58 up: Index)

As announced on 22 August, SPIcam has been returned to UW in Seattle
for repair.  This has now been accomplished, and the instrument is
working again.  The opportunity of having it in Seattle will be used
to carry out some previously planned upgrades (which would have eventually
required it to be out of service for a period anyway), including most
importantly conversion to a mechanical cooler which will rid us of
the need for liquid nitrogen fills in the middle of the night (or at
any other time).

The hope is to return the instrument to service at APO in the second
half of September when heavy use is again scheduled during that dark
run.

Many thanks to the UW SPIcam group!

Ed Turner

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