1. Subaru Telescope 2008 Masa Hayashi Subaru Users’ Meeting
January 16, 2008

2. Major Events in 2008 Computer system contract renewed
NGS AO188 open-use began (S08B)
Full Depletion Layer CCDs on Suprime-Cam (S08B)
FMOS engineering first light
Time exchange with Gemini and Keck
MOU for collaboration with Princeton University and ASIAA
WFMOS negotiation ongoing with Gemini
SEEDS campaign observing program started
Awards received by Guyon, Mikami & Ito, and Iye

3. Publications

4. Proposal Statistics

5. Telescope Time Usage
(“Open use” includes time exchange programs with Gemini & Keck.)

6. Downtime Statistics

7. Instrument Usage
(Service observations are not included. AO nights are counted redundantly.)

8. Publications by Instruments

9. 13 News Releases in 2008 SN are not spherical
(Maeda et al.)
Disk around a low mass star
(Kudo et al.)
COSMOS
lensed galaxies
(Yagi et al.)
Dust formation in a SNE
COSMOS
(Taniguchi et al.)
Saturn’s Atmosphere Oscillation
Cas A Echo
(Krause et al.)
COSMOS
The coldest stars
(Ishii et al)
“Fireballs”
(Yoshida et al.)
Galaxy evolution
(Tanaka et al.)
FD CCDs on Suprime
Tycho’s SN Echo
(Krause et al.)

10. Major Issues in 2009 Steady operations and publications
Full open use of NGS AO188
Risk-shared open use of LGS AO188
Open use of FMOS from S09B
HSC design review (budget and fabrication plans)
Decision on WFMOS
HiCIAO campaign observations (SEEDS)
Planning the future computer system (including Gen2)
Planning future infrared instruments
10 Year Celebration Ceremony (Sept? in Mitaka)
2010 & 2011 – downtime expected for top unit modification