20 February 2008 – UKIRT Aluminizing Schedule Altered
Update, 20-Feb-2008
To mitigate the risk of a clash between the late stages of SCUBA-2 commissioning at JCMT and the Aluminizing of the UKIRT primary mirror, the aluminizing has been removed from the telescope schedule for June 2008. It will be rescheduled to fall near the end of August and early September (exact dates to be decided) and the impact on Cassegrain time in August and Wide Field time in the September – November block will be kept to as low a minimum as possible. Additional WFCAM observing nights are being entered into the schedule in June, split in the standard proportions between UKIDSS, Campaign projects, PATT and UH.