AAOmega Manuals and Supplementary Information

The AAOmega home page

How to prepare for an AAOmega observing run

AAOmega software

See also the notes below on Configure and 2dfdr
The software download and set-up page

Configure Users Manual

Configure [.doc], [.pdf]

A guide to the Simulated Annealing Configure software.
A guide for making Complex Configurations
A guide to Locking fibre allocations in place between configurations.

AAOmega FAQ and FMM

AAOmega Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
AAOmega Frequently Made Mistakes (FMM)

AAOmega CCD parameters
AAOmega Grating information

2dfdr data reduction software manual

A quick start 2dfdr data reduction CookBook Twiki
The 2dfdr data reduction system users manual [Word], [pdf]
Users manual (Postscript) [old version, pre 2005]
2dfdr Output File Format Twiki

AAOmega user manual

2dF/AAOmega Control Task Manual [.tex], [.ps], [.pdf], [.html]

SPIRAL

Acquasition and overheads
Observing notes

Instrumentation papers

"Performance of AAOmega: the AAT multi-purpose fiber-fed spectrograph" : Sharp et al. 2006 SPIE 6269E 14, arXiv:astro-ph/0606137
"AAOmega: a scientific and optical overview" : Saunders et al. 2004 SPIE 5492 389
"AAOmega: a multipurpose fiber-fed spectrograph for the AAT" : Smith et al. 2004 SPIE 5492 410

Log Sheets

These can also be found at the AAT on aatinst@aatlxy:/instsoft/2dF/config/

Observing log LogSheet_obs [ps], [pdf]
Configure log LogSheet_conf [ps], [pdf]

AAOmega/2dF expert user material

Technical information, for AAOmega support astronomers, can be found on the technical documentation page.

Rob Sharp (rgs@aao.gov.au)