Folks, I have planned and run the 2 NIS studies proposed by Young et al.  
They ran Ok on the EM apart from the fact that the mirror seemed to stick 
during the first raster of one of them, but I assume that is an EM feature.
One of the durations came out longer than planned by a couple hundred 
seconds so I will ask for that to be hardwired into the database.  

It should be noted that the small brightenings study uses 24 NIS windows
and cannot therefore record the CCD background - please confirm that you
are happy with the consequences of that.  In juggling the
telemetry/exposure times I set the areal coverage (solarX/Y) in the bright
point study to be 60"x120" (as opposed to requested 60"x60") but only
240"x120" in the off-limb study (240"x240" requested). 

I am having trouble generating the FITS files for the Fe_lines GIS
study so will try that again later.  I will export the NIS ones and inform
Bill. 

Resume follows... 

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SMALL_SB - Study of small scale brightenings
           Precise acronym to be run - SMALL_SB
           Approx Duration - 835 secs (per raster), 4 rasters in total
           NIS, 60x120 arcsec area, 4x240 arcsec slit, 15 locations
           Exposure time 50s, Compression - straight copy
           Lines: 24 - too numerous to list!
           Comment - lines chosen to study range of temperatures to
                     investigate nature of any brightenings seen


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OLICS - Off Limb Inner Corona Study (pity it wasn't Barely Off Limb....)
        Precise acronym to be run - OLICS
        Approx Duration - 2100 sec (per raster) (to be hardwired), 4 rasters
        NIS, 240,120 arcsec area, 4x240 arcsec slit, 60 locations,
        Exposure time 30s, Compression: Straight copy
        Lines: Lots (15)
        Comment - Study of temperature and density structure in the 
                  inner corona.

 
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Dave