Comments recorded in End-Of-Night & End-Of-Run reports

As before, most comments written in the reports during period 42 were very positive, both about the observing system and the support from the staff.

There was actually no common theme to the remarks made accept for the poor phone connection in the control room (see below) being mentioned twice. In more or less chronological order; it was requested that the new Atmospheric Dispersion Corrector (ADC) as a default is moved out of the beam at start-up (this was changed); a request was made for a better printout of the FIES cookbook (provided); it was noted that the things in the dome standing in front of the side ports make it hard to open them completely (some rearranging has been done); it was noted that one of the side ports was hard to close (was repaired); a request was made to have WiFi in the control room (as there is an issue of potential interference with the electronics we are planning some tests before considering installing any such system); a request was made for a humidifier in the control room (as this is more an issue for the summer we have not looked at this for the moment); it was requested to modify the ALFOSC slit acquisition script such that the image giving a through-slit-view of the target is displayed in physical instead of world coordinates (this was implemented); some improvements were requested in how different windows appear on the screen of the observing system (this is an on-going action); it was noted that doing NOTCam imaging using a dither pattern (the standard way of observing) can be made more efficient by letting the telescope offset between exposures be started as soon as the detector is being readout (this is actually something we already are working on); it was requested to include the obslog generated at the end of the night on the DVD copy with data for the observer (we plan to implement this together with an upgrade of the existing data archiving system). Also, again a request was made for a sauna.

It was also suggested to have a better system to check for ice on the dome. This was triggered by a night where the weather cleared up after many nights of high humidity and sub-zero temperatures, with the temperature staying below zero. As the problem is actually primarily the ice that forms between the rails and the upper hatch there is no simple way of checking this beyond trying to open the hatch itself, while because of the low temperatures the main risk is that the hatch can be opened more or less completely but then gets stuck and can not be closed again.

There was also a complaint about the amount of time being that ToO requests were allowed to take, noting that it should be limited to 1hr per 3 nights.