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Period 41
Report to the NOT Council and STC
54
STC meeting & 58
Council meeting
November 14 & 15, 2010
Thomas Augusteijn, Deputy-Director,
NOT, Santa Cruz de la Palma
November 11, 2010
Contents
Introduction
Down Time
Weather
General overview
Main problems
Instrument use
Comments recorded in End-Of-Night & End-Of-Run reports
Operations
Additional services
Educational activities
Service observing
``Fast-Track'' Service Program
General
Safety
Weather station
Telescope Building
Drive System
Relative positioning of telescope and building
Telescope
Telescope control system
Telescope drive
Mirror support system
Rotator balance
Pointing
Instrument communication
Catalogues
Observing system
Safety
Observing Blocks
Target acquisition
Telescope set-up scripts
Rotator limit
Guide stars
Data display
Data archiving
Exposure time calculator
Weather
Observing instructions
Observing tools
Documentation
Instrument change logs
Remote observing system
YNAO
New detector controller and data acquisition software
ALFOSC
Imaging
Spectroscopy
Polarimetry
Detector
FASU
NOTCam
Observing system
Filters
Imaging
Spectroscopy
Detector
Observing overheads
Vacuum & Cooling
Quality control
Reduction software
Documentation
FIES
Instrument
FIES building
Target acquisition
Quality control
Detector
Atmospheric dispersion corrector
MOSCA
Data acquisition
StanCam
Detector
TurPol
Data acquisition
Computers and software
Network
Reset/reboot observing computers
Computer maintenance system
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