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Lick Planet Search - Hamilton setup
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Fischer,
version: 21 Jan 2009
- Fill
the dewar every afternoon
Setting up the Hamilton
Camera room (four
things)
1) open echelle grating
2) open collimator – put in mask
3) open cross-disperser (slide out front and lift side panels)
4) fill the dewar
Is
the CCD controller temp correct? (-120 for dewar 8,
-116 for dewar 6)
Slit room
1)
I2 cell now on motor – controls on panel above Hamilton spectrograph
controller
2)
Check I2-cell orientation on first night with laser
3)
Power on I2 cell temp controller and press ÒstartÓ
4)
Fan on medium, drawing air
Set up
computers
1)
Data Taker: pull down Shane menu: ÒData Taker
ShaneÓ
2) Hamilton spectrograph controller: pull down Shane menu: ÒhamitÓ
3)
Photon integrator: in xterm, type ÒshowmidptÒ (pull down menu not currently working)
4)
I2 cell motor: pull-down Shane menu: Òslitroom_feÓ (slitroom front end)
5)
Event sounds: pull-down Shane menu: ÒeventsoundsÓ
6) Coords program: pull-down Shane Misc menu: ÒcoordsÓ
Logsheets:
Log
on to plato, copy last logsheet to current one and edit.
Focus
1)
Hamilton spectrograph controller (ÒhamitÓ)
Aperture plate (decker ÒdÓ, focus: ÒaÓ 100 micron,
2.Ó5 slit)
Lamp: ThAr (5)
Filter: clear (1)
2)
Data-taking window:
Exposure
time (B) = 20 sec
Display size: nr=1700 nc=1851,
sr=0
sc=100
Shutter: open
Binning
= row: 1, column: 1
Obs Type = Fast
DonÕt
Record (written to scratch directory for foc.pro)
Object
Name = focus
Is the ThAr ÒAÓ line
in the proper position at 760, 800?
3)
Run foc.pro on gouda
(computer)
idl> foc,
/plt, /mark, /hi_rho, /shane
Once
the best focus has been found, turn Recording on
and save the best focus image to /data/hamshane
directory
4)
Update the logsheet with current CCD Focus, Grating, Height settings.
Flats
1)
Data-taker (take 30 if possible)
Exposure
time = 1.5 sec
Window
size: nr=1700 nc=1851,
sr=0
sc=97
Shutter:
open
Binning:
1x1
Obs Type: fast
Record
Object
Name (I) = wideflat
2)
Hamilton spectrograph controller
Aperture
plate (decker ÒOÓ 640 micron, 5Ó slit)
Lamp:
Polar Quartz (8)
Filter:
bg13 (3)
3) on gouda xterm window: igetham 30
(takes a set of 30 exposures)
4)
Check the first image for problems – e.g., no I2 lines, right count
level, recorded
5)
Repeat with integration time of 5.5s, polar qtz and
bg12 filter: igetham 30
Iodine
1) in the slitroom_fe window, pull
down ÒfunctionÓ window and insert I2 cell
(did you
turn on the temp controller? Does
the temp controller read 50C?)
2)
Hamilton spectrograph controller
Aperture
plate (decker ÒLÓ 640 micron 2Ó slit)
Lamp:
Quartz (8)
Filter:
bg13 (3) to start
3)
Data-taker
Exposure
time = 1.5s, but depends on quartz intensity
Window
size: nr=1700 nc=1851,
sr=0
sc=100
Binning:
1x1
Obs Type: fast
Record
Object
Name = iodine
4)
Start the exposure, but ÒSelect to PauseÓ in the data-taker window after 1.5
sec. Change to a bg12 filter and resume to complete the exposure.
5)
Check the spectrum – I2 lines present?
ThAr
1)
Hamilton spectrograph controller
Aperture
plate (decker ÒLÓ 640 micron 2Ó slit)
Lamp:
ThAr (5)
Filter:
clear (1)
A line should be around 760, 1280 (not 800!)
3)
Data-taker
Exposure
time = 3s
Window
size: nr=1700 nc=1851,
sr=0
sc=97
Binning:
1x1
Obs Type: fast
Record
Object
Name = ThAr
Observing
1)
Turn on photon integrator: flip 2 switches, dial to 710 V, pull plunger
2)
On gouda: be sure you have ÒcoordsÓ
window up and read in observing script
(note: ÒyesÓ enable POCO on gouda)
3) Be
sure ÒshowmidptÓ program is up and running
CAT
a) Open up the CAT telescope (housing, then siderostat, upper shutter then mirror cover, pull and
twist ceiling cover, put in 5th mirror, turn on tracking)
b) Start guider (click ÒCATÓ on bottom menu bar,
Òreset to default values in parameter window, check that guiding apertures are
over slit and that TV camera is focused)
c) Set on Bstar, 10 minutes
before 12 degree twilight
d) Check telescope focus
e) Start autoguider
(ÒStart CAT Guiding,Ó enable auto-guider by flipping toggle on instrument
panel)
3m
a) direct the telescope
operator to the starlist
b) select target star and
ÒSend to POCOÓ
4)
Update exposure times and object names in data-taker
5)
Update logsheets (spaces, no tabs in logsheet)
End of the night
1)
If no Bstar observed at the beginning of the night,
observe one now
CAT
a) toggle off autoguider
b) turn off software guider
tracking
c) stow telescope
d) close housing (mirror
cover, upper shutter, siderostat cover, housing,
swing out 5th mirror, twist ceiling cover to close)
2)
Turn off photon integrator (push in plunger, dial down voltage, flip two
switches)
3)
Take one I2 observation
4)
Take one ThAr observation
5)
Take a second set of wide flats
6)
Check (and fix) logsheets
on plato: idl>
logchecker
Advanced
observers:
a) ftp logsheets
to Berkeley or SF State
b) run barylog
c) set up raw reduction
script at SFSU
d) start ftpÕing raw data to SFSU
7) go to sleep!
Advanced
observers:
e) run raw reduction script
after waking up
End of the run
1)
In the slit room: make sure the I2 heater is off, cover cell, turn off fan
2)
Close up the optics in the camera room
3)
Have all data been ftpÕd to SFSU? All logsheets?
Advanced
observers:
Has
barylog been run on all logsheets?
Is
the latest and greatest bcvel.ascii file at SFSU?
Have
all raw reductions been run?
Has
barystruct been run on the SFSU bcvel.ascii
file?