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McMath-Pierce Solar-Stellar Program Update (1Dec92)
(from NSO, NOAO Newsletter No. 32, 1 December 1992)

We are pleased to report on some upgrades to the facility that will
enhance our capabilities in the stellar synoptic and visitor program,
and generally make the observing environment for visiting PIs more
user-friendly. The instrument and mountain data reduction now operate
under the ICE system (IRAF Control Environment).  We also have
installed a Sparc2 (named PACIFICA) along with (in response to a number
of visitor requests) IDL. The new workstation is in a small observing
room in which we have installed two monitors. One is for the digital
output of the video guider, and the other is a telescope VDU. The video
guider itself will, however, have to remain near the spectrograph. We
will also have a VT100 emulator that will enable telescope control to
be accomplished from the observing room.

As of this writing, the installation of one of the 1024 x 3072 chips in
a dewar to replace our present TI 800 x 800 chip is being planned for
the November-December time frame. This large format CCD is the first
step in our planned effort to cross disperse our echelle grating.
Finally, new and updated manuals are available, and we now have a
computer-based observing log system at the telescope.

Mark Giampapa, Dave Jaksha,
Jeremy Wagner, Paul Avellar

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