STATUS AND VERY FIRST COMMISSIONING OF THE ASTRID2 SYNCHROTRON LIGHT SOURCE

The new Danish light source, ASTRID2, to provide brilliant UV and soft x-rays from a 10-nm electron beam at 580 MeV, was completed in 2012. Commissioning is in progress and planned to continue through 2013 with interleaved user operation of ASTRID, until all beamlines are fully operational on ASTRID2 at the end of 2013. The status of the project will be given together with comments on some identified issues.