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Starting up the Instrument Software

In a command window, type

hydrawiyn

Two windows will appear.

• The HYDRA-COMMANDS window where you type in the various commands to operate the instrument.
• The HYDRA-GRAPHICS window which displays a plot of the Hydra configuration and provides some rudimentary GUI capability.

An example of the graphics window is shown in figure 15.

  
Figure 15: Sample view of Hydra graphics window.