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The ARC 3.5 Meter Telescope The 2.5 Meter Sloan Telescope The 0.5 Meter ARCSAT Telescope The 1.0 Meter NMSU Telescope Apache Point Observatory Latitude 32° 46' 49" N Longitude 105° 49' 13" W Elevation 9250 ft

Apache Point Observatory Now and Then May 2014May Telescopes (all operational)( 1 operational) 1 Lab Building1 Lab Building 3 Office Buildings1 Office Building 1 Machine Shop/Garage1 Shop/Garage 2 Dormitory Buildings (17 beds) 2 Dormitory Buildings (12 beds) 1 3 bedroom House Trailer1 NSO house rental 10,000 sq ft storage rented

Apache Point Observatory Staff Now and Then (does not include ARC/SDSS institutional support) May 2014May Administration2 Administration 2 Programming - IT1 Programming - IT 6 Engineering1 Engineering 4 Technicians1 Observer 14 Observers (8 PhD’s ) 5 Total Staff 29 Total staff (includes SDSS) 29 Includes SDSS staff

The ARC 3.5 Meter Telescope

ARC 3.5m Telescope Now and Then Last Year (2013)First Year of Operation (94/95) Observing hours Scheduled : 4047 hours2850 hours Observed : 2796 hours1585 hours Equip loss : 29 hours 275 hours Engineering : 310 hours 395 hours Instrument Suite DIS, ARCES, SPICam, NICFPS, Agile, TSpec, GIFS DSC, GRIM, DIS* (ARCTIC in Development) + 4 guide cameras, wavefront sensor, engineering camera and APOLLO

ARC 3.5m Telescope (2) Now and Then Last Year (2013) First Year of Operation (94/95) Image Quality Visible : Median 1.1” Best 0.6”Median 1.7” Best 1.1” NIR:Median 1.0” Best 0.5”Median 1.4” Best 0.9” 3.5m Staff 8.5 FTE external7 FTEs + 2 external Operations Budget (2014 Dollars) $1,160,000 $656,707 ($415 per Obs Hour) ($416 per Obs Hour)

ARC 3.5m Telescope Staff Mark Klaene – APO Site Manager Bill Ketzeback – 3.5m Chief Telescope Engineer Gretchen Van Doren – Program Manager Fritz Stauffer, Jon Brinkmann – Software Engineers Ed Leon – Electronics Technologist Ben Harris – Facilities Supervisor Russet McMillan – 3.5m Night Ops Mgr, Telescope Scheduler Jack Dembicky, Alaina Bradley, Alysha Shugart – Observing Specialists Remote (at U. Washington) Russell Owen, Conor Sayres – Software Engineers Nick MacDonald, Joe Huehnerhoff – Mechanical Engineers

ARC 3.5m Telescope Improvements There have been numerous improvements and additions over the past two decades. See poster in back of room for details! Major improvement projects New Graphical Telescope User Interface (TUI) Modern Axis Control System New Direct Drive Motors on all axes New Mirror Support, Control and Actuators New Light Baffles New Top End Assembly New Telescope Control System software (in progress)

ARC 3.5m Instruments Dual Imaging Spectrograph (DIS, Princeton, Jim Gunn) ARC Echelle Spectrograph (ARCES, Chicago, Don York) Optical Imaging Camera (SPICam, Washington, Chris Stubbs) NIR Imaging Camera (NICFPS, Colorado, John Bally) High Speed Imaging Camera (Agile, Washington, Anjum Mukadam) Triplespec NIR Spectrograph (TSpec, Virginia, Mike Skrutskie) Goddard Integral Field Spectrograph (GIFS, NASA/GSFC, Bruce Woodgate/Michael McElwain) ARC Telescope Imaging Camera under development (ARCTIC, APO, Joe Huehnerhoff/Bill Ketzeback)

ARC Small Aperture Telescope (ARCSAT, 0.5m) Originally from JHU for SDSS photometric calibrations Upgrade project just completed, led by APO staff Joe Huehnerhoff and Bill Ketzeback. Now in shared-risk operations with remote user interface, two imaging cameras High interest and usage from ARC partners!