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A User's Guide for the NOAO Mosaic Imager Software
Steve Heathcote
June 1997 Arcon software v7.0
Postscript Version of Manual
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 ...
Steve Heathcote-CTIO staff
Thu Jun 5 23:14:25 MST 1997