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28 Sep 2009: The first step has involved backing up the original sdf data onto new media as the old DLT tapes are beginning to fail. ... 8. AOB Ten new CPU/disk storage units have been delivered for the GAIA project.

21 Apr 2009: 7. VISTA update No new VISTA data has been received since the last CASU meeting since VIRCAM has not been up and running on the telescope. ... 8. AOB MJI said that he anticipated no further news about the grant until after the Budget and is expecting a

30 Mar 2009: The new (O2)4 structure is not the lowest-energy structure at this level of theory, demonstrating the need for additional studies. ... sensitive detectors have arrived on wide-field imaging instru-ments, on a new generation of 8-metre-aper-ture telescopes

26 Jun 2009: After a bit of head banging with MJI decided no new header items needed for tile products other than the usual inherited blurb and the usual progeny info. ... STH and MR noted that there was still an issue with illumination of the new dome screen that

12 Mar 2009: He also noted the hardware server moves to the new room over last w/e and wondered if the ensuing silence was good news or bad news. ... The meeting closed with a brief discussion of the new computer support arrangements.

16 Mar 2009: In 10 hour integrations in V,i in 0.5 arcsec seeing last Autumn using the new Hamamatsu detectors this reaches unprecedented ground-based 5-sigma imaging depths of 28th magnitude ... JRL will return to the linearity sequences that have been observed and

26 Oct 2009: Note added post meeting: after informing JAC of this new feature JAC staff tracked this down to pickup from a cooling fan in an electronics rack and a workaround was implemented ... corrections MJI compare WFCAM dome flats with twilight sky flats SC

14 May 2009: Moshut. Woodbury, New York : American Institute of Physics, 1998. (AIP conference proceedings ; 428), p.499. ... S. Young, and D. F. Buscher. A new photon counting spectrometer for the COAST.

12 Jan 2009: Sub-mm. Far-IR. Mid-IR. Good news: different wavelengths see different grain sizes and different structures. ... Bad news: both spatial distribution τ1/r and temperature of far-IR dust implies mass loss of 2M/Myr.

8 Jul 2009: Discs were detected with moderate frequencyfor stars a few hundred Myr old, but no new detections were madefor ages comparable to the Sun’s 4.5 Gyr. ... No new discover-ies were made among the 13 stars observed, but the Infrared SpaceObservatory (ISO)