Current Status

Telescope status

• [2020.Feb]
  Telescope reflectivity has been updated on Jan, 2020:
  Telescope mirrors reflectivity (Primary/IR-M2/IR-M3) (December, 2019)

• [2019.Sep]
  Telescope will be closed from 22 July to 8 September 2019 due to the repairing of the main shutter.

• [Since 2017.Apr]
  The windscreen of telescope has not been available since April 2017. We recommend for users to prepare backup targets to avoid a strong wind effect.

Instrument status

• [2020.Feb]
• REACH (IRD+SCExAO) is opening from S20B.
• COMICS will be decommissioned from S20B, i.e., not available since S20B.
• MOIRCS will be hibernated from S21A.
• AO188 is available only in NGS mode in S20B. New laser will be installed in S20B.
• VAMPIRES can be operated simultaneously with CHARIS/SCExAO NIR observations.
• AO188 is available only in NGS mode in S19B and S20A.

User support

• The observing planning tool, hskymon, is updated (ver 3.8.2). It is useful for checking target visibility, finding standard stars, checking finding charts, searching AO guide stars, etc. (09 April, 2019)

• Subaru HDS++ OPE file editor (HOE) is available for HDS, IRCS, and HSC (ver 4.1.0) (17 June, 2019)

General enquiries may be directed to Dr. Tae-Soo Pyo ().

3 Feb, 2020