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Summary of Night Statistics: Nov 05 – Aug 06 Total Night Time Hours

Month Available Hours Weather Loss Eng. Time* Science Time** Nov 2005 130h 24% 66% 10% Dec 2005 190h 19% 55% 26% Jan 2006 200h 22% 64% 14% Feb 2006 215h 38% 58% 4% Mar 2006 270h 20% 77% 3% Apr 2006 290h 48% 39% 13% May 2006 320h 55% 18% 27%

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Summary of Night Statistics: Nov 05 – Aug 06 Total Night Time Hours

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  1. Month Available Hours Weather Loss Eng. Time* Science Time** Nov 2005 130h 24% 66% 10% Dec 2005 190h 19% 55% 26% Jan 2006 200h 22% 64% 14% Feb 2006 215h 38% 58% 4% Mar 2006 270h 20% 77% 3% Apr 2006 290h 48% 39% 13% May 2006 320h 55% 18% 27% June 2006 326h 25% 25% 50% July 2006 332h 45% 15% 40% Aug 2006 315h 59% 18% 23% *includes faults and non-science observing (e.g. RSS work, IQ, subsystem commissioning **fraction of time when primary goal was science observations (commissioning or P-V phase) Summary of Night Statistics: Nov 05 – Aug 06Total Night Time Hours Astronomy Operations Matters David Buckley

  2. Month Science* Shutter Open** Overheads*** Ratio# Eng Faults Spec 87% 67% 20% 3.35 9% 4% June 2006 66% 14% 52% 0.27 8% 26% July 2006 73% 22% 51% 0.43 10% 17% Aug 2006 56% 17% 39% 0.44 33% 11% *total fraction of available observing hours devoted to science, including set up time, calibrations and overheads **fraction of shutter open time on science targets, not including calibrations or overheads ***overheads include all telescope acquisition, guiding, set up, calibration and preparation tasks #ratio of shutter open time to overhead Summary of Night Statistics: June – AugustFor Total Useable Hours Astronomy Operations Matters David Buckley

  3. P-V Phase Observations Astronomy Operations Matters Total Completed Exposure Times: Month Total PV Special PV* PV I/II** June 2006 33.5 h 6.6 h 26.9 h July 2006 40.5 h 19.8 h 20.7 h Aug 2006 23.0 h 12.5 h 10.5 h *Targeted PV proposals from partners begun in June 2006 **Existing PV proposals from first two calls in 2005 David Buckley

  4. Special P-V Phase Observations Astronomy Operations Matters Proposal Status: PI Partner Topic Req. Obtained %comp.* Notes Hours Hours Albrow Canterbury Globular Clusters 9.0 10.65 100% Bershady Wisconsin IC4901 disk 3.5 10.82 100% Chaboyer Dartmouth RR Lyr Sgr Dwarf 0.83 1.22 100% de Swardt South Africa BHs in clusters 2.0 3.13 100% Kaluzny Poland Clusters NGC6822 4.08 4.18 33% Wider slit obs req Potter South Africa mCVs 5.0 0.50 10% Target only vis. Aug. Reichart UNC GRB Afterglows ToO 0.67 100% GRB050606 observed Schuh Göttingen W-R pulsations 2.8 2.37 100% Spekkens Rutgers Huchra’s lens 1.5 1.75 100% Tylenda Poland V4332 Sgr 2.5 3.37 100% Wegner Dartmouth NGC289 & CDM 1.2 1.5 100% *realistic %Completion based on inspection of data All programs essentially completed (more time used than allocated for various reasons) Kaluzny data - with wider slit (2” instead of 1.5”) – will be attempted Potter/Woudt program will continue until stand-down More PV will continue until stand-down David Buckley

  5. Night-time activities Poor weather in August Special PV programs completed Supporting other activities as requires (included Hartmann obs) Some other occasional engineering support (e.g. RRR Ghost tests, Cal. Sys, SW tests) Liaison with PIs Following data processing, data products and raw data is organized for downloading by responsible SA and PI then contacted Data being routinely distributed via FTP (raw and reduced) Continuing Java tool developments (C. Hettlage) PIs requested to provide reports (in time for SSWG meeting) Data reductions On going development work on IRAF/Pyraf (M. Still) SALT IRAF package released to SALT community Astronomy Operations Matters David Buckley

  6. SALTICAM (Report from Darragh) Instrumentation Matters David Buckley

  7. RSS (Report from Ken & Steve to be circulated once received) Instrumentation Matters David Buckley

  8. Bidders teleconference on 31 Aug Addition of Nanjing Institute of Astronomical Optical Instrumentation 6 bidding groups participated + TW + DB + LWR Full designs pack not released by UC in time for conference Meeting went as well as it could have under the circumstances (lack of detailed drawings, etc.) Discussions on UC submitted budget numbers DB believes poor effort by UC accountancy types (no CPI, ROE, quarterly labour breakdowns) Cost to PDR in excess of Board agreed maximum ($140K) But for further work to CDR no stipulation on amount allowed TW discussing final amount of shares to be credited to UC with PC Need to compile manifest of deliverable items (detailed drawings, etc.) Of immediate value for bid proposals Value diminishes with time SALTHRS: Instrumentation Matters David Buckley

  9. No further mech. developments FIF: Instrumentation Matters David Buckley

  10. DB + PAC + Alexei, Petri & Yas attended IAU GA in Prague Poster papers on SALT Oral paper in Joint Discussion (“Hot Topics”) Interest in SALT Publicity of first science paper and featured in GA Newspaper SSWG meeting Oct Canvassing for format Involve science discussions Presentation of special PV results, etc. Selling SALT time to OPTICON access program? DB circulated email to BEC A means of SALT raising regular income (Euros) by selling a few% of time annually. Could potentially generate $15,000-$20,000 per night Would help ops budget Other Activities David Buckley

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