Very brief engineering observations were made last night (8/3) between thunderstorms with quite encouraging results. Unfortunately, the sky did not clear long enough for the minimum necessary work needed to put the telescope back on line. Thus, JH01 and PU01 are canceled for tonight (8/4). Tomorrow night (8/5) is scheduled for EN time anyway, so the earliest resumption of science operations would be the night of 8/6. Note that the programs which have been canceled due to extention of the shutdown have not actually lost any usable observing time; in other words, they would have lost their time to weather in any case. Unfortuantely, the weather pattern appears fairly stable, and the forecast for the coming days is about the same as it has been for some time. If no unexpected problems are uncovered during the engineering observations which will be carried out as weather permits, approximately one half night of clear time will be required before science operations are resumed. Ed Turner APO APO APO APO APO Apache Point Observatory 3.5m APO APO APO APO APO This is message 292 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