AAO Documentation - Manuals by History

On-line Documents - The Current ones.

• Two Degree Field (2dF) - continuously updated WWW pages for 2dF.
  
  
• IRIS2 - continuously updated WWW pages
  
  
• UCLES/UHRF - Third version (online) of the UCLES and UHRF manuals
  
  
• WFI / PFU - continuously updated WWW pages
  
  
• 6dF - continuously updated WWW pages
  
  
• EEV and MITLL3 - large format detector performance pages
  
  
• UCLES ThAr arc atlas for large format detectors.
  
  
• An RGO CuAr Arc Atlas with the 600 line grating - A postscript document (782Kb) or a gzipped postscript document (135Kb), with an associated Figaro arc file, which should enable users of the 300, 600 and 1200 line gratings on the RGO Spectrograph 25cm camera to identify their internal arc spectra. 
  
  
   

On-line Documents - The Less Up-to-date ones.

• The AAO CCD Imaging Manual - An on-line document for CCD imaging observers at the AAT back when we only had 1K TEK and Thomson detectors available. Superseded for loarge format detectors by the pages above.  The sections on the use of the TEK and Thomson CCDs are considerably more up-to-date than the 1989 Users Guide to CCD Detectors. which is available in Postscript form without any figures.  It also supersedes the Notes for users of the f/1 Imaging System, which is incorporated into into the Imaging Manual. (Last updated pre 2000)   
  
  
• The AAO Observers' Guide used to be your first source for information on the AAT and its instruments. It contains brief descriptions and sensitivity estimates for all the AAT's instruments; information on when, how and where to submit proposals; as well as information on travel to Australia and the AAT. Most of this has been superseded by more modern www pages. But there is still some historically useful information in there.
  
  Two versions are currently available:
  
  1. The Fifth (1996) Edition :- is the more up-to-date version. This edition is currently only available on-line via the WWW. It contains the entire contents of the 1991 edition. Although some of the figures have had to be scanned and are not of great quality, they all still pass on the requisite information. Moreover, most of the important instruments have had their sensitivity estimates upgraded to reflect our current (rather than 5 year old!) detectors.  The Fifth Edition also contains hyper-links to the appropriate manuals for more detailed information - where available). (Last updated pre 2000)
       
     Users of Netscape 2.0 (or higher) may prefer to use the Frames version of the Fifth Edition.
        
  2. The Fourth (1991) Edition :- is available as hardcopy from the Librarian (see above), or as a Postscript file, which does not include the manual's figures. (Last updated 1991.)
       

On-line Documents - The Obselete Ones & Decommissioned Instruments.

• RGO Spectrograph Manual - a revised and updated version of the RGO Manual, which has now been decommissioned.
  
• Taurus Tuneable Filterpage.
   
•  FLAIR Users Guide Part 1 - An online version of UM31.1. The figures have  been recently installed. (December 2, 1996)
   
• FLAIR Data Reduction with IRAF - This document is available both on-line, and as a Postscript file (Last updated 19 Aug 1996).
  
  
• The IRIS Manuals - The IRIS spectrograph allows both imaging, spectroscopy, imaging-polariometry and spectro-polarimetry. An infrared Fabry-Perot , known as UNSWIRF, has also been constructed by the University of New South Wales. A home page for UNSWIRF can be found here.
  
  Observers considering the use of UNSWIRF are reminded that, at present, it must be proposed for on a collaborative basis with members of the University of NSW's UNSWIRF team - contact John Storey (jwvs@newt.phys.unsw.edu.au).
  
  The following manuals for IRIS are available : 
  
  1. The IRIS User's Guide - A guide to using IRIS at the telescope and preparing for your observing run. This document was originally distributed as a text file, and has being converted into HTML.
     
  2.  The IRIS Reduction Guide - a guide to reducing IRIS data, with instructions on how to use some of the code written at the AAO specifically for IRIS.
       
• Photography with the AAT - An online version of David Malin's 1989 manual. (Last updated 1989)
     
• Users Guide to CCD Detectors - An online version of the 1989 manual. The AAO CCD Imaging Manual  is worth consulting as well, or instead of, this manual, as it is considerably more up-to-date and contains useful tutorials on starting and stopping the CCD system. However it is biased towards imaging observations.  (Last updated 1989)
    
• AAO Taurus-2 Manual - a draft document prepared in 1992. Be warned. (Last updated 1992)
    
  

• Notes for users of the f/1 Imaging  - Please use the The AAO CCD Imaging Manual instead.

The AAO astronomer currently responsible for on-line documentation is Chris Tinney (cgt@aaoepp.aao.gov.au), who will gratefully receive any suggestions as to how these pages can be improved.

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