The NA2 guider was returned to the vendor for repair of some nagging malfunctions and glitches during the shutdown. At some point during this process, the guider camera failed entirely, and the vendor has not yet been able to fix, or even identify, the problem. We thus expect to resume science operations without the use of the NA2 guider for some indeterminant period of time, hopefully to be measured in terms of days rather than weeks. The NA1 Echelle guider is functional and can be used to acquire a pointing model. Since DIS can be guided using the slit viewer and GRIM2 exposures are generally too short to require guiding, the most serious impact will be on SPIcam users who need to make longish exposures. PIs of such programs should monitor the situation with the NA2 guider and begin to make alternate plans if necessary. Ed Turner APO APO APO APO APO Apache Point Observatory 3.5m APO APO APO APO APO This is message 690 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