The Coude Echelle Spectrographs (Expert Information)
Appendix C5: Telescope Setup for UHRF (night assistants)
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Aquisition TV
The UHRF aquisition TV (Pulnix CCD) is located slightly off axis back,
towards the coudé 5 mirror. Since the Pulnix camera does not maintain
focus with changing zoom, the zoom should be fixed for the night or if
it is necessary to zoom out (for target aquisition) then the zoom should
be returned to the same value.
Since the zoom is not encoded the following technique can be used to
return to the original zoom value. When zoom and focus are first established,
a fiducial mark should be placed in the centre of the square entrance hole
on the slicer dekker. Bringing the hole back to this fiducial returns the
original zoom.
Select ARC THAR and use its illumination to locate the slicer
entrance aperture.
Pointing model
Since the UHRF entrance aperture is displaced from the centre of the UCLES
slit by several cm, the UCLES pointing model is not entirely suitable for
UHRF. Two CFUDGE offsets can be entered into the telescope CCS. Typical
values in 1994 were -75, -46. UPDATE?
Guiding
With the image slicer it is vital that LAMBDA offsets be
used, by issuing the LAMBDA command to the telescope computer
control system (CCS). This takes a few seconds to move the star; be patient.
The LAMBDA correction should be revised at the end of each
exposure by setting LAMBDA 5500 Å recentering the star on
the slicer aperture, and then issuing LAMBDA lambda again
(where lambda is the wavelength of the observation).
TV guiding is straightforward. Use the CCS TVCR command. The
SS1 and SS2 lights should be off and the SS3 light on.
Ray Stathakis (ras@aaoepp.aao.gov.au)
Last Update: 22 March 2000