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JAC Home JCMT UKIRT Contact info JAC Divisions OMP Outreach Seminars Staff-only Wiki Weather Web Cameras ____________________ Observing at UKIRT Service Observing UKIDSS Survey Operations Target of Opportunity Calibration & Standards Astronomical Utilities UKIRT Archive Public wiki Accessing UKIDSS Data Accessing PI Data Reduction Cookbooks Telescope Site Quality Instruments Newsletter/Publications UKIRT Faults JAC Safety Manual Safety Briefing	UKIRT Backward Look This table gives the history of timings of major UKIRT work, instrument mode switches etc. Year Month Semester Instruments Event notes & comments 2005 January 05A Cassegrain February March WFCAM WFCAM recommissioning April Start of UKIDSS 2-year plan observing May June Cassegrain July August 05A,05B Both Instrument switch mid-month September 05B WFCAM October November December 2006 January Instrument Switch: early Feb 2006 February 06A Cassegrain March April Instrument Switch: late Apr 2006 May WFCAM June July Instrument Switch: late Jul / early Aug 2006 August 06B Cassegrain September October Instrument Switch: late Oct  /  early Nov 2006 November WFCAM December 2007 January February March April 07A Instrument switch: mid-May 2007 May Cassegrain End of UKIDSS 2-year plan observing June July Instrument switch end of July-2007. August 07B WFCAM Beginning of new split: Cass/WFCAM = 25/75 WFCAM Campaigns/PI = 85/15 September October November December Cassegrain Instrument switch 3-Dec-2007 2008 January February 08A WFCAM March April May June July Cassegrain August 08B Aluminization and Cass-WFCAM switch, Aug-Sep 2008 September WFCAM October November December Cassegrain 2009 January

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