Subject: 3/99 Shared Risk Echelle Programs

From: elt@astro.Princeton.EDU

Submitted: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 17:00:49 -0500 (EST)

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Installation of the new Echelle spectrograph on the 3.5-meter is now
in progress at APO.  If things go according to plan, installation and
first light will be accomplished by roughly the end of November and
science commissioning and calibration will be completed by about the
end of February.  This would lead to general availability of the
instrument beginning in 2Q1999.  In addition, the Echelle instrument
scientists, Doug Duncan and Don York, have indicated a willingness
to consider "shared-risk" collaborative use of the instrument with
interested members of the ARC user community in March 1999 (the end
of 1Q1999).  Such use of the instrument would be charged to the
appropriate institutions according to their TAC allocations to the
program (rather than to EN time).  If you are interested in such use
of the Echelle in March 1999, please contact Doug or Don directly to
investigate the possibilities *before* submitting proposals to your
TAC(s).

Ed Turner

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