The paper describing the first public data release from the survey has now been accepted by Monthly Notices and will appear in vol 322, pink pages 29. We are now hoping to have the surveys complete inside two years, with a public data release in the first half of 2001.
Details are still to be confirmed.
For the time being, the number of QSOs is creeping up slowly and we are continuing to get shocking weather for our observing runs. Observations are continuing and the weather has been kinder, if not wonderful. 2dF itself has been behaving well. Recently there have been some exciting develpments. The science grade CCD has finally been installed in spectrograph 2 and new ADC control software also seems to have greatly improved its performance.