Spectrograph email

I got an email from the S800 spectrograph today. Yes, yes, I know it was automatically generated from the inverse map server and not the spectrograph itself. I just have this mental image of a three-story piece of experimental equipment sitting at a terminal and politely typing me an email so that my data can be better calibrated. Somehow, though, I think that when people say that the S800 is a very nice device, they mean it's high-quality, not genteel.


Relatedly, one of these days, I'd like to figure out whether it's the S800 spectrograph or the S800 spectrometer. The primary paper cited for the S800 has "spectrograph" in the title, but the paper about the focal plane has "spectrometer" in its title. Either way, it's a wonderful apparatus, even though most of the groups--including mine--who do experiments with the S800 use it in moderately-awesome mode ("focus mode" for getting as much data as possible) instead of supremely-awesome mode ("dispersion matched mode" for superb momentum resolution).


It's still pretty cool to get an email from an experimental device.