Operations Manual for the Burrell Schmidt Telescope

Philip Massey - Bill Schoening - Taft Armandroff

4 March 1996

Contents

• Introduction
  • About This Manual
• Overview
• Making It Happen
  • Opening check-list
    • Turning On the Telescope
    • To Open the Dome
    • To Move the Telescope
  • Reading the Setting Circles
  • Closing check-list
  • Hints for Field Acquisition
• Operating the Guider
  • Calibration of the Guider at the Beginning of the Night
  • Guider check-list for each field
• What Can Go Wrong