Stubbs is planning a trip to Princeton to work with Gunn on this. There is modest interest in the 3.5m community in using it. All of incoming photons are detected, and used. There was a lengthy discussion of the trade-offs involved in getting visitor instruments, where the telescope time comes from, and the imperative not to overburden the site staff. Gillespie is checking with the AOTF team on this.
Users report that the echelle is very straightforward to use.
It has a very small acquisition field, so be prepared with good finding charts. Given that funds will be available in the outyears for further development, we need plans for what we want to do over the next three-someodd years. We'll discuss this in more detail next time. Everyone start thinking about this, and talking to your communities about this. Previous month's minutes are approved.