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Free Kitt Peak Instrument Manuals (1Mar95)
(from KPNO, NOAO Newsletter No. 41, 1 March 1995)

Along with the telescope and instrumentation, the associated documentation
is a significant element in providing capability for scientific research.  In
all fields of experimental science, understanding the capabilities and operation
of the instrumentation is critical to success.  Particularly in an era of
increasingly complex instruments and budgetary constraints, such knowledge
is important to all aspects of a Kitt Peak observing program, from writing a
good proposal, through efficient use of observing time, to analysis of the
data.  As mentioned elsewhere in this Newsletter, many of the Kitt Peak
manuals are being upgraded or generalized within the context of scientific
capabilities.  A list of the manuals available via anonymous ftp from the
subdirectory kpno/manuals is given below.  All of these are in compressed
PostScript (.ps.Z) format, and one must set the binary flag within ftp before
retrieving the files.

Writing manuals is a largely unheralded but nonetheless important service to
the users of Kitt Peak, and credit is due to the authors for the significant
effort involved.  In addition, many excellent suggestions for improvements to
the manuals come from users.  We continue to encourage comments or
suggestions on the Observing Run Evaluation Form.

Dick Joyce

0.9m.ps.Z              "0.9 Meter Telescope Manual," P.
                       Massey, W. Schoening, G. Jacoby

4mechspec.ps.Z         "Echelle Spectrograph," D. Willmarth

ccdlogs2.ps.Z          "Automatic Observing Logs," T. Lauer

ccdphot.ps.Z           "CCDPhot Users Manual," L. Davis, E. Carder,
                       A. Sarajadeni, T. Kinman

coudespec.ps.Z         "Coude‚ Spectrograph," D. Willmarth

crsp.6.ps.Z            "Cryogenic Spectrometer User Manual," R. Joyce

direct.ps.Z            "Direct Imaging Manual for Kitt Peak," P. Massey,
                       T. Armandroff, C. Harmer, G. Jacoby, W. Schoening,
                       D. Silva

gcam0.ps.Z             "Revised Gold Camera Users Manual," J. DeVeny, E.
                       Carder, D. Harmer

hydramanual.ps.Z       "Hydra Users Manual," S. Barden, T. Armandroff, P.
                       Massey

ice.ps.Z               "An Observer's Guide to Taking CCD Data with ICE,"
                       P. Massey, T. Armandroff, J. Barnes, B. Bohannan,
                       T. Boroson, G. Jacoby, S. Rooke, R. Seaman, D. Silva,
                       D. Tody

ice.xnotes.ps.Z        "Notes for Using X Windows on Kitt Peak," R. Seaman

mountman.ps.Z          "Using the Mountain Computers on Kitt Peak," L. Wells

multislits.ps.Z        "Multislits at Kitt Peak," J. DeVeny, P. Massey,
                       V. Sarajadeni

rcspx.ps.Z             "The R-C Spectrograph for the Mayall 4-meter
                       Telescope," J. DeVeny

schmidt.ps.Z           "Operations Manual for the Burrell Schmidt Telescope,"
                       P. Massey, W. Schoening, T. Armandroff

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