Recent Announcements
Resolved: PEPSI Blue CD Position Issue
Posted Feb 10, 2023
Resolved with PEPSI SSD2023 upgrade and work.
Update 2023-02-10
The blue CD is degrading its operational performance: now it cannot be re-positioned from UMAC at all. It can no longer move down to CD1. It only can traverse between CD2 …
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Even-odd bias level instability in the lower right quadrant of MODS1B
Posted Dec 20, 2022
There is an intermittent issue affecting the lower right quadrant (Q2) of MODS1B, where the counts in even and odd channels differ by hundreds of ADU (>~450 ADU). Because of the readout strategy employed: the detector is read out by …
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Persistence effect on LUCIs
Posted Oct 14, 2022
There appears to be a temporary change in the persistence behavior of the LUCI detectors. After an observation of Saturn, from data collected on 20220906 (simple sum of the dithered Saturn data), persistence is still visible a month later (20221013):
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Instrument Status Post SSD 2022
Posted Sep 19, 2022
LBC’s: Released for Science
TMS: Released in shared risk
LUCI’s: Released for Science
SX AO: Diffraction limited and ESM in all modes are released in shared risk.
MODS: Released for Science
PEPSI PFU: …
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New Obs Computer Structure
Posted Sep 10, 2022
We have recently made some changes to our observing workstations, retiring several stations and renaming others. The old 32-bit mountain workstations obs2 and obs3 have been retired, and obs4 has been renamed obs-32bit. The former 64-bit machines, obs5 and obs6 …
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WCS added to MODS headers
Posted Jul 08, 2022
To satisfy the requirements that LBTO data archived and distributed to partners be IVOA-compliant, a WCS was
added to MODS headers at the end of April 2022. MODS data taken on and after 2022-04-29 UT will contain a
spatial WCS …
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