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With the exception of the Burrell Schmidt, all the Kitt Peak telescopes are
run by computers that can communicate with the ICE/IRAF computer to pass along
header information giving the time, telescope position, and telescope
particulars at the beginning of the integration. However, for this to
work, ICE must know the name of the telescope you are using. This is automatically set
for you at the beginning of your run by running obsinit, and is
based upon which SUN workstation you are using. These names are,
at present, ``kp09m", ``kp21m", ``kpcdf" (note
the middle ``d"), ``kp4m", ``kpmm" (for McMath), and ``kpschmidt".
Setting the telescope
name to ``test" allows you to take data when the telescope computer is
down or otherwise incommunicado; of course, you won't get any
telescope header information
in this case. In the case of the Schmidt the only header information you
will get is the fitler position and the local sidereal time.
(You could, if you felt so inclined, epar telpars before
each exposure at the Schmidt and enter whatever of the header information
you would like to preserve.) An example telpars
is shown in Figure 6.
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Updated: 26Aug1996