Schedule

Past milestones

• 2019-01-11 - Install first spectrograph on rack at Mayall Telescope
• 2019-01-25 - Primary mirror re-aluminization complete and back on telescope
• 2019-02-11 - Start functional verification of two spectrographs at KPNO
• 2019-02-15 - Install second spectrograph on rack at Mayall Telescope
• 2019-03-11 - Fiber View Camera (FVC) installation (daylog)
• 2019-03-14 - Telescope motion enabled (daylog)
• 2019-03-20 - Imaging Surveys dr8b release
• 2019-04-01 - Start of Commissioning Instrument (CI) run
• 2019-05-06 - Pause in CI run to move cage
• 2019-05-15 - Resume CI run
• 2019-06-03 - End of CI run
• 2019-07-05 - Imaging Surveys DR8 release

Near-future milestones

• 2019-09-25 - Commissioning start with focal plane + spectrographs (First Light, line 715, "Telescope ready")
• 2019-10-29 - Last spectrograph installed (line 739, "Install Spectrographs")
• 2019-10-15 - Imaging Surveys DR9 release (TBD)
• 2019-12-12 - Initial Survey Validation fields (line 992)
• 2020-01-12 - Nominal start of Survey Validation (line 1003)

Activities at Kitt Peak updated from DESI-4550 on 5 July 2019.