Contents

• Description of the Spectrographs
  • Echelle Spectrograph Characteristics
    • General
    • Spectrum Format
    • Coudé Stability
  • Hardware Specifications
    • Beam Rotator (UCLES only)
    • Calibration Lamps
    • TV Viewing
    • Slit/Image Slicer
    • Periscopes (UCLES only)
    • Focal Modifiers
    • Slit Filters
    • Shutters
    • Collimators
    • Hartmann Masks
    • Cross Dispersing Prisms (UCLES only)
    • Cross Dispersing Gratings (UHRF only)
    • Echelle Gratings
    • Cameras
  • Detector Options
  • Planning an Observing Proposal
    • System Throughput and Counting Rates
    • ECHWIND: Selecting the UCLES wavelength setup
    • Starting ECHWIND
    • Running ECHWIND
• Practical Guide to Observing
  • Controlling the spectrograph
    • Starting the VAX Program
    • Setting and Displaying Spectrograph Mechanisms
    • Pre--observing Checks
  • Controlling the detector
    • CCDs
    • IPCS
  • Online Data Analysis
    • VAX FIGARO Notes
    • SUN FIGARO Notes
• Setup Procedures
  • General setup
  • Installing the Detector
    • Rotating the Detector (UCLES)
    • Rotating the Detector (UHRF)
  • The UCLES SETUP Routine
  • Telescope setup
    • Aquisition TV (night assistant)
    • Pointing model (night assistant)
    • Guiding (night assistant)
• Data for the 31.6 lines mm Grating
  • Echellogram
  • Spectral Format --- UCLES 31.6 lines mm Grating
• Data for the UCLES 79 lines mm Grating
  • Echellogram
  • Spectral Format --- UCLES 79 lines mm Grating
• Data for the UHRF Echelle and Cross--Dispersing Gratings
  • Spectral Format --- UHRF 31.6 lines mm Grating
• LISTing of Control Files
  • UCLES Control File
  • UHRF Control File
• DISPLAY of spectrograph configuration
• Complete List of Commands
  • Low-level Spectrograph Commands
    • Spectrograph Command Format
    • Exceptions to These Rules
    • Complete List of Mechanisms
  • Control File Commands
  • High-level Spectrograph Control Commands
  • Utility Procedures
  • Setup Commands
  • Miscellaneous Commands
• Finding a new UHRF wavelength the hard but reliable way.
• Operating with the SYNTEL in MANUAL mode
  • General
  • SYNTEL Micro--computer commands for MANUAL mode
• UCLES and ADAM
• Installing the System
• Error Recovery
• Spectrograph technical calibrations
  • The Hilger slit
  • Measuring the slicer output
  • Alignment of the UHRF slit angle
  • Recalibrating UFC and USC
• FIGARO Echelle Reduction Software
  • Overview
  • Preparing a CCD frame
  • Worked Example
    • Order Location
    • Order Extraction
      • Mask Creation
      • Mask Extraction
      • Accurate Extraction From Straightened Orders
        • Order Straightening
        • Order Extraction
    • Wavelength Calibration
    • Scrunching
    • Merging Orders
    • Displaying Long Spectra
  • Summary of the Example