There were no major problems, a tribute to the careful planning and hard work of the team and the local staff. Base temperature of 75 mK was reached on 14th June. There was a three-week period of daytime testing before first light was obtained on July 8th. In figure 2 we show a map of the galactic star formation region NGC 2071 which took just over 5 minutes of integration on a wet night and in figure 3 we show an image of W 48, another galactic star-forming region. This is due to a wiring failure which will be fixed when the instrument is warmed up at the end of August.
Some channels also seem to be sensitive to vibration from the chopping secondary mirror.
The sensitivity of the LONG-wave array is not as good at present as originally hoped. This is due to an excess of background radiation which we believe to be caused by a leak in a blocking filter, a new one of which is being built at QMW and which should also be replaced during the warmup in September. A similar problem had previously been found with the 3 photometric pixels and fixed. As described above, there is a warmup scheduled for the end of August at which time it is hoped to fix the dead channels, reduce the sensitivity to vibration, and reduce the background on the LONG-wave array. Service observations will be performed during the extended semester 96B in December, January and February.