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):
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: …
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 …
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 …
Posted May 12, 2022
Regarding PEPSI scheduling for the remainder of 2022A, the PEPSI team will be conducting their fourth and final run using the 1.8 m VATT plus fiber feed to PEPSI for their TESS campaign tied to ecliptic pole visibility. Their …
Posted Mar 28, 2022
The LUCI1 1.5/2.0 Longslit mask experienced a MOS mask failure moving from turnout to FPU. During this failure the mask rotator failed to move and the mask stuck in an intermediate state. This MOS error could be caused by loose …
