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

• 2019-10-15 - Commissioning start with focal plane + spectrographs (First Light, line 745, "Telescope ready")
• 2019-12-12 - Last spectrograph installed (line 798, "Install Spectrographs")
• 2019-12-02 - Imaging Surveys DR9 preliminary release on SV fields
• 2020-02-26 - End of commissioning, start of Survey Validation (4.5 months after line commissions start, from project plan in monthly report)

Activities at Kitt Peak updated from DESI-4550 on 5 Oct 2019. (start of SV taken from Monthly Report)