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LIST OF ACRONYMS AND SOME USEFUL TERMS

Acronyms:

• ArCon -- Array Controller, controls the T2KC CCD on the Bench Spectrograph.
• ATV -- Acquisition TV camera on the Bench Spectrograph which views the fiber slit.
• FBI -- Fiber Back Illuminator, a bank of LED's which illuminates the fiber slit for viewing fibers with the gripper camera.
• FOPS -- Field Orientation Probe, a 7-fiber bundle placed on a bright star for locking the telescope pointing onto the target field. There are twelve FOPS available.
• ICCD -- Intensified CCD camera. Both the gripper camera and the FOPS camera are ICCDs.
• OT -- Observing Tech, either your telescope operator or the daytime mountain support person.
• SCS -- Simultaneous Comparison Sources on the Bench Spectrograph.
• SSD -- System Status Display. Video display of telescope and instrument status.
• T2KC -- CCD used on the Bench Spectrograph.
• WIYN -- Wisconsin, Indiana, Yale, NOAO consortium member of the telescope.

• fiber # -- The number corresponding to the position of a fiber around the circumference of the focal plate.
• object # -- The user number of a target (first column) in the .hydra file.
• slit # -- The number referring to the position of a fiber along the spectrograph slit.