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Network status: telescopes in Australia, internet to Chile

Dec 7, 2016

A new SBIG camera (kb98) was installed on the 0m4a (40cm) telescope at our Australia site on November 24. The camera was enabled for science observations on December 1.
Also at the Australia site, the 2-meter telescope was taken offline on December 4. Our TelOps team detected some anomalous behavior in the telescope's motion. They've now found the likely source of the anomaly and fixed the problem. We expect to re-enable the telescope for science observation for the 2016-12-08 night.
I reported in November that we've been experiencing internet connectivity problems to our site in Chile. Those problems, although now less frequent, haven't ceased. The unreliable connection can disrupt the delivery (and subsequent processing) of images. If you can't find images in the archive from observations made at our Chile site (LSC), please send an email to science-support@lco.global.