Schedule

Near-future milestones

• 2019-01-24 - Primary mirror re-aluminization complete and back on telescope (line 269)
• 2019-01-28 - Begin installation of spectrographs + cryostats at the Mayall Telescope (line 646)
• 2019-02-11 - Start functional verification of two spectrographs at KPNO
• 2019-02-15 - Imaging Surveys DR8 release
• 2019-03-11 - Fiber View Camera (FVC) installation (line 338)
• 2019-04-01 - Commissioning Instrument available to commissioning team ( line 360)
• 2019-05-13 - End of CI run (6 weeks long, line 361)
• 2019-07-15 - Imaging Surveys DR9 release
• 2019-09-20 - Commissioning start with focal plane + spectrographs (First Light, line 598)
• 2019-10-08 - Last spectrograph installed (line 618)
• 2020-01-11 - Nominal start of Survey Validation

Activities at Kitt Peak updated from DESI-4550 on 13 Jan 2019.