Telescope set-up scripts

For our main instruments scripts exist that set the various parameter of the telescope such as orientation of the detector, telescope focus, autoguider focus, etc to standard values for the given instrument. The primary use is when starting the telescope at the beginning of the night and to be able to quickly change between instruments. A specific issue noted with these scripts is that it sets the field-rot angle which will cause the rotator to start turning immediately. If during the process the telescope is preset to a new target it has occurred that the telescope gives some warning messages and does not (properly) acquired the guide star for the new target. To avoid this, the telescope is simply stopped at the start of these scripts before changing the field rotation angle so it will only take effect when you do a preset.

The set-up scripts have also been changed such that automatic guide star acquisition is activated.



Thomas Augusteijn 2010-11-19