Une nuit d'observation
Beginning of the night
Weather station
- su
- service wview restart
if it doesn't work, retry or check the wiring of the meteo station - firefox -> see in the wiki under Station meteo
- exit
Which TRANSIT to observe
- ETD Transit web page
- In geneva: long 6°, lat. 46°
- In La Silla: long 70°W, lat. -29°S
Telescope
- telescoped
- xobs
- find homes
- find limits (only if the telescope was accidentally moved )
- ds9 &
- paladin --ds9
Calibration
Flat
- ngflatfield
- --start now
- --numexposures 30
- --targetadu 15000
- --duration 1h [or alors 1s or 1m]
At this point, paladin give the number of the action. It will be usefull to check the images in: /local/actionXXX
Focus
- ngaddfield
- --ra
- --dec
- --
- ngmapfieldCam
- --field
- --Camera
- ngfocusweep
- --start now
- --field June
- --exptime 5
- --startpos 2.5
- --endpos 4.0
- --step 0.1
- --duration auto
Minimum focus finding
It's possible to plot the best focus in each pixel, or in the entire ccd using:
cd ngts/Observations/RunFocus/new_code
python get_fwhm.py 1081 /*name of action*/
display the image on a terminal using:
eog image.png /*eog means eye of gnome and allow you to display an image*/
if you want the fwhm in real time:
cd ngts/Observations
python get_fwhm.py /local/action1081
Bias
- ngbiasframes
End of night
- Park the telescope using
- ngpark
- Close the terminals (paladin, ds9 and xobs) using ctrl-c
- Heat the ccd slowly using the command
- /ngts/Observations
- python ShutDownCam.py
- Shutdown the telescope, put the cover and the humidifier