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17 Mar 2006: o Legacy value, Serendipity and new classes of object. o Maximising the science return from ESA missions, XMM-Newton, Planck, Herschel and GAIA.

18 Jul 2006: The Panel strongly recommends that the PI submits a new proposal which focused on the science that can be achieved by covering the whole southern sky in JK only.

18 Jul 2006: 6. WFCAM news (Non)linearity saga - this one could run for a long time. ... 7. VDFS news PSB reported that he had a productive visit to RAL and that he has returned with 270 files - all with full headers.

26 Jan 2006: The good news is these artefacts are non-astronomical in appearance and do not "talk" across the detector quadrant boundaries, or between detectors; the bad news is that they do not ... Darks. The darks, including new improved residual reset anomaly now

21 Oct 2006: Progress is being made - ongoing EGS has made the new ING archive interface the default one. ... He also noted that various UKIRT new project Letters of Intent were being circulated to those likely to interested.

2 Aug 2006: Optical processing update 5. WFCAM news - reprocessing 05B - progress with 06A - non-linearity update - MSB ID checksum for tagging bad MSBs 6. ... VISTA news - VIRCAM AIT status and data - VDFS docs status - DRL status 7.

2 Nov 2006: taken roughly in the middle of the night (and as it happens also taken within 4 days of new moon).

18 Jul 2006: Optical processing update 5. WFCAM news 6. VDFS news 7. Plone update 8. ... 6. VDFS news There was not much new news on VIRCAM since WJS was away.

6 Nov 2006: Tests are underway on the new baffling tube which should cut out remaining Moon glint problems. ... New acquisition hardware has been installed and still has a few teething troubles.

1 Oct 2006: WFCAM news 8. VISTA news 9. UK review 10. VISTA public surveys 11. ... DWE reminded ALL about the location of Plone site. A web new server has bought and installed.

11 Mar 2006: News on VISTA survey proposal front: WJS said that he knew of 9 surveys that had been proposed. ... Meanwhile, we were all asked to look at the new site and send in comments to DWE and EGS.

2 Feb 2006: DWE said that this would be sorted out with the new Plone system. ... ETC - This new CASU requirement occupied most of PSB's (& some of MJI's) time during January.

8 Sep 2006: Actions from last meeting 2. Comments on WFAU minutes 3. News from IAU GA 4. ... Optical processing update 8. WFCAM news 9. VISTA news 10. AOB Minutes ------- 1.

18 Apr 2006: New files are checked to see they are in a sensible location and then copied over to the Plone system. ... The new sky processing strategy creates a lot (500/night) of intermediate step sky frames (xskys).

9 Aug 2006: MJI compared old and new versions of the catalogue software and MR also compared toolkit development version with pipeline version. ... This includes new surveys and even new instruments (sic!). The one new survey all present agreed on was the idea of a

31 Jul 2006: V2. fixed stacks, better sky, full standard catalog parameters,. new 2MASS ce’s = EDR version. ... 1 #3 05B cross-talk full standard 2MASS new ce Oct 2005removed parameter set (DR1 version) -Feb 2006.

27 Mar 2006: Actions from last meeting JRL has not received any news about the OMP database mirror and its repair. ... News on science with WFCAM data: STH said that a paper on alpha Sco was in production.

13 Oct 2006: New disks: >30mJy (none), 10-30mJy (5), 3-10mJy (9). • Mean flux of non-detections is 0.3mJy. • ... Expect some structures explained by current models. • For others new dynamical models will be developed.

15 May 2006: A new idea has come up of creating a new Plone state of "obsolete". ... VDFS news VIRCAM Status AITnn: WJS reported on the status of the telescope, mirror, dome and camera.

9 Jan 2006: RGM noted that this was an impressive achievement to start the New Year with. ... UKIRT There is no new data for the UKIRT archive at the moment.