A User's Guide for the NOAO Mosaic Imager Software

Steve Heathcote

June 1997 Arcon software v7.0

• Contents
• Introduction
  • Some Introductory words
  • About this manual
  • The data acquisition and data reduction computers
  • A lightning tour of the Arcon/Mosaic software (and hardware)
  • Getting help
• Logging in and Logging out
  • Logging in and fireing up the Arcon/Mosaic software
  • A Guided Tour of the Windows
  • Pre-observing check list
  • Restarting the Arcon software
  • Shuting down the software and Logging out
  • Obsinit
  • Re-starting the MSE and related software
• Data Taking
  • Observe - The Only Command You Realy Need to Know
  • Exposure Control Commands
  • Other Commands for Taking Data
    • Taking exposures of specified type
    • Getting more of the same
    • Taking a test exposure
    • Taking your flats the easy way
    • Grids and Dithering
  • Rescuing your Data with Recover
• Setting the Detector Parameters
  • detpars and setdetector
  • ccdinfo
• Controlling the instrument
  • Instrpars
  • The wheel1 pset
  • Motor Control During Observations
  • The Motor Command
    • motor move
    • motor status
    • motor init
    • motor reset
    • motor enable
• Getting the Telescope in Focus
  • Taking a focus frame
  • Determining the best focus
  • Keeping the telescope in focus
• For the Sophisticated User
  • Specifying parameters on the command line
  • Using History
  • Typing Ahead
  • Scripts
  • Quick Reference
  • Frequently Encountered Problems (and there solutions)
  • FAQ
• About this document ...