Telescope DPS Pasadena Meeting 2000, 23-27 October 2000 Session 26. Progress has been made toward making it operational. The primary and secondary mirrors have been installed. The servo-controlled friction drives for all three axes are operational. The telescope is being pointed and tracked on stars with a realtime video camera at folded prime focus.
Motion is smooth and pointing is repeatable.
The 2Kx2K CCD and its electronics are ready. 2048x4608 three-side buttable grade 1 CCDs with 13.5 micron square pixels. Electronics for control and readout are well along in development. New optics for the 0.9-m are required for the wider, flat, distortionless field, and to match the new pixel size to 1 arcsec on the sky. We have received the field corrector lenses and ordered the blank for the new primary mirror.