Comments recorded in End-Of-Night & End-Of-Run reports

As before, most comments written in the reports during period 33 were very positive, especially about the support from the staff.

Apart from comments related to problems that were also separately entered in the fault data base and comments about the weather there were only a few specific comments. There were some comments about how to focus when observing in polarimetric mode with ALFOSC, where we have improved the instructions. It was suggested to also have an audible alarm outside when breaking the light beam at the bottom of the stairs to warn people when they are leaving the telescope. This will be installed in the near future. For the TCS it was suggested to add the option to move the telescope in Alt and Az using the arrow keys as is already possible for RA and Dec. It was also suggested to expand the options to define permanent telescope pointing offsets by including a relative permanent offset, and to let the autoguider focus change automatically together with changes in the relative focus value (`foc-del') for different settings of the instrument optics (e.g., different filters). All these things are being considered, but at low priority. There were also two requests for a Sauna.

Thomas Augusteijn 2006-12-04