CAFE NEWS

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04/05/2020Santos PedrazMTO-202010/06/201419/03/2015ThaAr lamp replacementNew ThAr lamp installed on June 10th 2014, in use until March 19th 2015
16/10/2019Santos Pedraz3-201921/03/201921/03/2019New double fiber shaker installedThe new system now produces a mechanical scrambling in two axis.
28/08/2019Santos Pedraz2-201927/08/201927/08/2019Change of ThAr lampThAr lamp changed by Julio/Jens. The old one was very faint (half the signal of that of Aug 5th). It turns out that the old one had been used before for tests, so it was not new when mounted. No one knows exactly how much use it had when mounted this last time.(written by M. Azzaro).
13/08/2019Santos PedrazMTO-201906/08/2019ThAr lamp changedNew ThAr Lamp installed on August 6th by G.Bergond. The old one used 121 hrs with 39 activations.
24/06/2019Santos Pedraz1-201924/06/2019ThAr lamp changedNew ThAr Lamp installed on June 21st by G.Bergond and M. Azzaro. The old one used 398 hrs with 254 activations.
02/10/2018Santos Pedraz2-201825/09/2018ThAr Lamp changedOn September 25, 2018 a blown ThAr lamp was replaced by a new one. The old one was used 259 hrs in 135 activations. Time of use counter set to zero.
02/10/2018Santos PedrazMTO-201826/04/2018Echelle grating replacedOn April 26th a new echelle grating manufactured as the previous one by Newport, is installed at CAFE. Recovering the original efficiency of the spectrograph.
13/08/2018Santos Pedraz1-201809/05/2018ThAr Lamp changedOn May 04, 2018 a blown ThAr lamp was replaced by a new one. The old one was used some 200hr. Time of use counter set to zero.
23/12/2016Santos Pedraz3-201623/12/2016ThAr Lamp changedOn December 22, 2016 a blown ThAr lamp was replaced by a new one. The old one was used 201,4 hrs in 67 activations. Time of use counter set to zero.
07/12/2016Santos Pedraz2-201623/07/201623/07/2016ThAr Lamp changedOn July 23, 2016 a blown ThAr lamp was replaced by a new one. The old one was used 600.2 hrs in 204 activations. Time of use counter set to zero.
20/01/2016Santos Pedraz1-201620/01/2016ThAr Lamp changedOn January 20th, 2016 a blown ThAr lamp was replaced by a new one. Time of use counter set to zero.
11/08/2015Santos Pedraz2-201511/08/2015ThAr Lamp changedOn August 11th, 2015 a blown ThAr lamp was replaced by a new one.
06/04/2015Santos Pedraz1-201506/04/2015ThAr Lamp changedOn March 19th, 2015 a blown ThAr lamp was replaced by a new one.
23/07/2013Jesus AceitunoMTO-201323/07/2013CCD head come back homeBack to the mountain, The CCD detector has been repaired by Andor Technologies. After re-alinigment, the instrument is again fully operational.
11/06/2013Jesus AceitunoMTO-201304/06/201304/06/2013CCDhead has been sent to ANDOR for maintenanceCAFE detector has been sent to ANDOR technologies to be repaired.
30/04/2013Jesus Aceituno5-201317/04/201327/04/2013Som scatter light on the images.Some scattered light has been detected in the center of the images. It seems to be condesantion due to a vacuum leak in the detector. Some tests are being carried out.
05/04/2013Jesus Aceituno4-201302/04/201314/04/2013New observing run.Working temperature of -90C cannot be achieved due to vacuum leak in the detector. The CCD is going to be sent to ANDOR technologies while a spare one will be shared to avoid any lost of observing time.
30/01/2013Santos Pedraz3-2013New Observing runCAFE is sucessfully installed at the telescope
30/01/2013David Galadi2-2013Change in CAFE webpageLink to the "signal to noise" document removed. It contained misleading data. The exposure time calculator provides much better orientation on integration times and SNR.
23/01/201323/01/2013Jesus AceitunoMTO-2013New pressure sensors installedAn absolute and relative pressure sensors have been installed in the optical bench. A temperature and pressure log is stored every minute on disk.
23/01/2013Jesus Aceituno1-2013New observing runCAFE is sucessfully installed at the telescope. No problems reported.