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How do I manually change the focus of the telescope?


The focusing is automatic, it is made by a system based on different temperatures measured on the tube of the telescope (autofocus) and acting on the position of the secondary mirror M2.


Manual changes are made in the prompter-T120.

 

Prompter_T120.png

The mirror can be positioned in an absolute manner

@m2p <absolute move>

or relative manner

@m2p [+|-]<relative move>

Attention, you must limit yourself to 1 parameter only because this command also allows you to modify the X-Y displacement and the X-Y tilts with parameters 2 to 5.



The nominal positions are

NECAM:
$THOME/config/t120/applic/ecam/server.cfg
te.m2zpdef = 25.408
CORALIE:
$THOME/config/t120/applic/coralie/server.cfg
te.m2zpdef = 32.250

 



The current focus can be extracted from the night log files with:

grep -a "best focus at" $TDATA/services/MAINTENANCE/log/2020-01-02/t120.*

LW 27/04/2020

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