Schedule

Near-future milestones

• 2019-01-10 - Primary mirror re-aluminization complete and back on telescope
• 2019-01-17 - Fiber View Camera (FVC) installation
• 2019-01-28 - Begin installation of spectrographs + cryostats at the Mayall Telescope
• 2019-02-11 - Start functional verification of two spectrographs at KPNO
• 2019-02-15 - Imaging Surveys DR8 release
• 2019-03-26 - Commissioning Instrument available to commissioning team (CI First Light)
• 2019-05-06 - End of CI run (6 weeks long)
• 2019-07-15 - Imaging Surveys DR9 release
• 2019-09-04 - Commissioning start with focal plane + spectrographs (First Light)
• 2019-10-01 - Last spectrograph installed
• 2020-01-11 - Nominal start of Survey Validation

Activities at Kitt Peak updated from DESI-4550 on 16 Dec 2018.