To GRIM2 users: Below is a request to install a new filter in GRIM2. The APO operation budget doesn't contain funds for this this year, but we are considering setting aside monies in next year's budget for instrument upgrades, based partly on user demand. So if you have comments one way or the other, let them fly on this mailer. Also, if there is a consensus *and* someone has an independent source of funding, we could do this sooner rather than later. Bruce Gillespie >Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 10:44:45 -0600 >From: Alan Watson <alan@oldp.nmsu.edu> >To: gillespi@galileo.apo.nmsu.edu >Subject: Filter for GRIM II >Mime-Version: 1.0 > >Would APO be interested in ponying up $1000 for a filter for GRIM II? > >The filter in question is a narrowband 2.14 micron filter for use with >the 2.16 micron Br-gamma line and the 2.12 H2 line, which are probably >the most important astrophysical lines in the K window. Currently GRIM >II has no filter suitable for use with these, and that makes it >impossible to perform accurate line imaging. (If you want, I can tell >you why every potential candidate is unsuitable.) > >Mark Hereld supports the idea of acquiring such a filter and would be >willing to install it when GRIM II is opened later this summer. Would >APO be willing to fund the purchase of the filter? I think it would >cost about $1000. > >Regards, > >Alan APO APO APO APO APO Apache Point Observatory 3.5m APO APO APO APO APO This is message 26 in the apo35-grim archive. You can find APO the archive on http://www.astro.princeton.edu/APO/apo35-grim/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-grim@astro.princeton.edu APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO