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Dear Australian astronomers,
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<div class="">I’m writing as your ESO Users Committee (UC) representative. My role is to represent Australian ESO Users and act as a capillary link between ESO and the Australian community.</div>
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<div class="">Firstly, many thanks to Devika Kamath, who expertly took on the UC representative role for the first half of the year while I was on parental leave, including attending the meeting in April.</div>
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<div class=""><b class="">ESO UC47</b></div>
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<div class="">As you may recall, the UC conducted its annual poll earlier this year.
<span class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Thank you to those who completed the poll, even amongst the busyness of proposal writing. We have raised the timing of the poll with ESO, but it is difficult to find an optimal time to conduct
it. Nevertheless, ESO takes the responses seriously, so</span><span class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> please do continue to provide feedback in future iterations. </span>The 2023 report can be found at
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https://www.eso.org/public/about-eso/committees/uc/uc-47th/UC47_2023_UCreport.pdf</a>, including a summary of the ESO community followed by a ‘fact sheet’ from each country. <span class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The report indicates </span><font color="#000000" class="">high
rates of satisfaction overall, with somewhat more positive reviews of OPC feedback and mixed views about the usefulness (and feasibility) of dual anonymous peer review.</font></div>
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<div class="">The special topic this year was “Archive Science”. About half (54%) of respondents from the ESO community (10/14 from Australia) had used at least one archive. The community offered many suggestions for improving the archives, including the need
to better promote awareness of the various services. </div>
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<div class="">The ESO Users Committee met on 20-21 April in hybrid mode. The agenda, presentations and other documents are at <font color="#419cff" class=""><u class=""><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/y9FSCp81lrt9JEoOKHGPoBi?domain=eso.org" class="">https://www.eso.org/public/about-eso/committees/uc/uc-47th.html</a></u></font>,
though not all files are publicly available. I draw your attention to the final document on that page containing the approved minutes of the meeting, and in particular the UC recommendations on pages 20-22. ESO has since verbally responded to the recommendations
by teleconference in November. That response is not public, but ESO considered all recommendations and I am pleased to report that, as usual, all are being acted upon.</div>
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<div class="">Best wishes for a happy Christmas and New Year ahead,<br class="">
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