THE UNITED KINGDOM INFRARED TELESCOPE
ANNUAL REPORT
1998

3.6. Other Developments

3.6.1. Reactive Scheduling

Reactive scheduling (recovery of the highest-priority runs in the event of poor weather) continued to be endorsed by the PATT TAG, with allocations of four nights in semester 98A and six in 98B. Since one starred 98A run (Noll) was blessed with good weather, two nights were used in 98A - recovering run 98A/51 (Hodgkin) and 98A/42 (Miller). Since most starred 98B projects affected by weather were scheduled in January, some rearrangement within the semester proved necessary. 1.5 nights were ``lost or made over to service'' when late 98B projects were shuffled into 99B to accommodate MAX, and when UFTI was delayed; 1.5 nights were used for service (9 Oct, Dec 4th); 0.5 nights used for UFTI Engineering (7 Oct); 0.5 nights used for polarimetry engineering (21 August) and two nights used (Dec 22/23) for recovery of Lucas' programme of brown dwarf observations in Orion.

3.6.2. Newsletter

The UKIRT newsletter was published twice, preceding PATT deadlines, under the editorship of Antonio Chrysostomou.