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Fall 1994 Scheduling of the Cryogenic Optical Bench (1Mar94)
(from KPNO, NOAO Newsletter No. 37, 1 March 1994)

The Cryogenic Optical Bench (COB) will not be available to visitors in
September-October 1994 in order to provide a test period for a new
camera module.  It will return to service in November 1994 with the
original optics (0.3 arcsec/pixel at the 4-m).

The camera undergoing these tests is part of the ongoing effort to
deliver improved spatial resolution at the 4-m telescope.  This new
f/15 camera will provide a plate scale of 0.12 arcsec/ pixel, and so
will be diffraction limited at the longer wavelengths of COB's 1-5
micron range.  The camera will be installed in COB this summer and
tested in August and September.

Results of this effort will be reported in subsequent issues of the
Newsletter.  A determination of whether to offer this high resolution
mode of COB as a user facility will be made early in 1995, based on the
success of the tests and community input.

Ron Probst

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