Milestones

The major milestones for implementation of the instrument are:

• Feasibility Study ( performed April 2006 )
• Kickoff Meeting ( performed October 2006)
• Preliminary Design Review ( performed November, 21th 2007 at IAA)
• Optics Final Design Review ( performed September, 24th 2008 at IAA)
• Order of purchase of Optic to SESO ( performed May, 2009 )
• Order of purchase of Cryostat to Reuter (performed May, 2009)
• Last optical elements received at end 2011.
• Integration tests of mechanical, optical and software at laboratory, along 2011 and 2012.
• Installation, commissioning and acceptance of the instrument at the CAHA currently is planned to take place in the 3rd quarter of 2014.
• Delivery of the final documentation in 2014.
• January, 2016: Br-gamma filter installed.
• November, 2017: the director of the Calar Alto Observatory and PANIC's principal investigators signed an agreement on the provisional acceptance of the PANIC instrument.
• September, 2018: order of the new detector, a monolithic HAWAII-4RG composed of a matrix of 4096x4096 pixels with a pixel size of 15 microns.