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The new TCS

The programming of the new TCS has progressed very slowly, and at the moment only 74% has been implemented. Although with his new work schedule Ingvar has more time to spend on things like the TCS, a very big fraction of his time was spend on regular problems when he was on duty on La Palma. There were also a few problems related to the old TCS (including the before mentioned pointing problems), which together with the normal holiday period left little time to work on the new TCS. Currently, the new TCS is expected to be finished in May 2004. However, note that this does not include the user interface or the catalogue handling.

Most of the hardware for the new TCS has arrived, and the few missing parts are expected soon (none of which should affect progress on the new TCS in any case).



Thomas Augusteijn 2004-01-06