Subject: no 8/29 APO 3.5m science ops

From: elt@astro.Princeton.EDU

Submitted: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 16:39:34 -0400 (EDT)

Message number: 519 (previous: 518, next: 520 up: Index)

Due to worse than expected weather last night (see log for details)
and the need for an adjustment to the collimation (and thus also the
pointing model), Wednesday night will be needed for engineering work
and will not be available for science operations as hoped/expected.

Also the weather forecast appears to be deteriorating, and it is possible
that Thursday and even Friday will be needed for engineering as well.

I now have a substantial oversubscription of requests for the OPEN time
even if all three nights had turned out to be available, so there is 
little point in sending me any more.

I will continue to monitor the situation closely and will try to assign
science programs to any available time on Thursday or Friday (Aug 30-31)
at least 24 hours in advance (if possible).  Those who have requested
time, please monitor your email accordingly.

I apologize for any inconvenience due to this at least partly "false alarm"
offer of OPEN time, but those of you who are familiar with the difficulty
of predicting the time required to "finish up" a major engineering effort,
to say nothing of the weather in a Southwest US monsoon season, will
understand, I am sure.

Ed Turner

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