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MOS Mask Cutting Dates

MOS masks will be cut on the first working day after the 1^st and 15^th of each month. In order for a mask to be cut on a given date the mask design and corresponding Phase II updates must be submitted at least one week before the cutting date. If a mask design is submitted too late to be cut at one deadline, then it will be cut two weeks later.

We strongly encourage all MOS PIs to submit their mask designs as early as possible (either at the start of the semester if not using GMOS pre-imaging or immediately after the pre-imaging is taken) in order to increase the chance that the MOS observations will be completed.

Please ensure that the latest version of the mask design software is used.

Last update December 14, 2007; Kathy Roth, Rodrigo Carrasco and Bryan Miller