The 2011A OT was released on December 2, 2010. The most significant changes from the previous version (2010B) are summarized below:
- Check that the band-3 minimum time is not zero
- Add support for new NICI components
- Add phase 2 check when the GMOS OIWFS guide star is not reachable
- Improve the visualization of GMOS OIWFS offsets
- FoV reachable by all offset positions marked in green
- Unreachable offsets marked in red
- Fix NIFS minimum exposure time error
- Update GNIRS image readout overheads
- Fix several OT orbital element bugs
- Fix observing wavelength in nested iterators
- Remove Hipparcos coordinate system.
- Add support for GNIRS ND filter
- Fix GMOS N&S binning bug
- Include GNIRS Read Mode in iterator
- Make GNIRS Camera an engineering component
- Fix non-sidereal target 'Now' button
- Fix GNIRS FOV visualization for all XD combinations
- Make GMOS-N amp count an engineering-only property
- GSAOI updates
- Configurable GSAOI orientation
- Component updates
- Update default values for ADC, dichroic and astrometric mode
- ODGW guide options