TCS Startup

Night logs:

For night logs you must sign-in to the 'Dell' system:   open a terminal, and type >dr

Fill in your night logs, but do not submit them. The day crew will submit the logs.

 

TCS:

TCS is ran on the middle Sun stations:

sign in with your observer account

open a terminal and run >wx_gui

open a Firefox window to view:

     The MONET all-sky cam :  http://monet-n-sky.as.utexas.edu/view/viewer_index.shtml

     Simbad:  http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/

     IRTF A0 tool: http://irtfweb.ifa.hawaii.edu/cgi-bin/spex/find_a0v.cgi

Run the TCS by clicking on the button along the bottom of the screen. 

Click the 'inactive' button on TCS to activate it

under View, select 'view sky plot'

Open the dome following the procedures.

under Tools, 'enable dome automation'

Go to your target following the Telescope Pointing Procedure