Current issues in the 3.60 & Cat team

Up to date information on the 3.60m & Cat Telescopes and last changes on our WEB pages:

• Instrument Exposure Time Calculators (ETC) have been added for ADONIS and EFOSC.

• The instrument CASPEC has been decommissioned. You still can have a look to its WEB page for some information.
• Our calibration page dedicated to ADONIS infrared cameras SHARP & COMIC has been updated with Zero Points & Sky Brightness measurements. Hurry-up !
• The page with nice results obtained with ADONIS has been updated. See: Doc, Links and images. Wonderfull !!!
• You should prepare your field maps before your observations. Have a look to: Pointing & Guiding

• The calibration page for the ADONIS infrared cameras is now available!
• You should prepare your field maps before your observations. Have a look to: Pointing & Guiding
• A new heading has been added to the ADONIS pages: List of scientific publications. Read it before submitting a new proposal !!!
• A new heading has been added to the ADONIS pages: Doc, Links and images. Essential !!!
• TIMMI is beeing upgraded to TIMMI2 (available to community towards the end of July 1999). You can already visit our new TIMMI2 page !!!
• EFOSC instrument is now controlled by Observing Blocks (OBs), which are made up of templates.
• EFOSC is the first T3.60 Instrument to work under a VLT-compliant instrument control. Check here for more information.
• Instructions to Visiting Astronomers: everything you always wanted to know about observations at the 3.60
• First discovery of a Circumstellar Disk around a Massive Star with TIMMI
• ADONIS: Adaptive Optics Field Performance
• ADONIS Numerical simulation performances: Reticon and EBCCD
• Util tools for EFOSC
• Calibration Measurements and Response Curves for EFOSC
• The 3.60m Telescope hatches have been repaired. Have a look to the nice pictures taken while people were working on it:

  (click on the thumbnail to see the original picture)
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• Released version of a technical report (gzip 318Ko) about instrumental background emission of ADONIS, written by D. Le Mignant, E. Gendron and F. Marchis.
• EFOSC page revisited by P. Leisy. Get also information concerning the new EFOSC2 instrument.

• The 3.60m TCS upgrade is being done.
• A Draft Version for Caspec User Requirements has been written by M. Shetrone.
  See also the caspec page.
• The New Very Long Camera will be available at the CES in Period 61.
  Check the information to prepare your observing run.
• S. Savaglio, S. Benetti and L. Pasquini produced a New Operating Manual for EFOSC1 Instrument.
• Released version of the Autoguider Functional Specification and CES Software User Requirements written by R. Gredel are available.
• Did you have a look on the Adonis page, updated by P. Amico, D. Bonaccini and D. Le Mignant?
• A. Sanchez wrote the F/35 Timmi Operating Manual.
• EFOSC2 will replace EFOSC1 at the Cassegrain focus of the 3.6m telescope during October this year (1997). Please red the note we inserted in the Efosc page.
• S. Benetti delivered the Requirement Specification for Efosc2 Instrument Software (released version).
• The Autoguider Functional Specification written by R. Gredel is open to review.
• The New Very Long Camera will be availabe at the CES in Period 60. Check the information to prepare your observing run.
• An updated planning of the 3.6m upgrade project , written by U. Weilenmann & R. Ggreenel, is available. This is a PostScript document.
• J. Fluxa (3.6m Team) and P. Sacre (VLT Division) prepare The IR survey at the 3.6m telescope.
• S. Randich & L. Pasquini wrote the New Caspec Operating Manual. Get and read it to prepare your observations!

• M. Shetrone installed a Exposure Time Calculator for CASPEC.
  
• The checkup list and setup forms is being installed by E. Barrios. Be aware that it is still under construction,
• S. Guisard wrote an important report on 3.60m Image Quality that you can download here.
  This report was included in the last December Messenger issue.
  
  gzipped PostScript Version (57Kb)

  The report of the 3.6m telescope pointing is available. It was written by E. Barrios and L. Pasquini [ gzipped PostScript Version (444Kb) ]

  A new CES user Manual has been written by L. Kaper and L. Pasquini. It can be download from the CES page.

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