LT offline 15th March for scheduled maintenance

The LT will be taken off-sky for scheduled maintenance on Monday 15th March for approximately one week. In addition to general maintenance of the telescope systems, more specific tasks to be undertaken include:

• refurbishment of Cassegrain axis motor gearbox number 2 (this is the other gearbox to the one which was repaired last year)
• servicing of the science fold mirror deployment mechanism
• work on FRODOSpec foreoptics and arc lamps

It's hoped the LT will be back on-sky by 22nd March at the latest.

Update 22 March: The LT minus FRODOSpec went back on-sky on the night of Saturday 20th March. FRODOSpec will possibly be operational again from Tuesday 23rd March.