The Cerro Tololo InfraRed IMager Manual

by Richard Elston

(amendments by J. Elias, B. Gregory, and R. Blum)

Welcome to the CIRIM instrument manual web pages. You may obtain a PostScript copy of the manual from the CTIO anonymous ftp server.

The current version of the manual is 09 Febrero 1999.

The CIRIM Instrument

• The CIRIM Instrument
• Introduction
• Filter Wheels
• Lyot Stop
• Detector Description
• System Performance
• Observing Efficiency (coadds vs. pics)
• Observing Notes
• Getting Started Observing
• The WILDFIRE Software System
• The Windows
• Starting the IR System
• Parameter Sets (ask, eask, ped, psave, puse)
• Observing Words (eask, observe, go, movies, abort)
• Aborting Observations
• The Editor
• Scripts
• Specific WILDFIRE Commands
• Troubleshooting
• Instrument Problems
• Telescope Problems
• WILDFIRE RESTART PROCEDURES
• INSTRUMENT STATUS WINDOW HAS VANISHED:
• SIMPLE RESTART:
• STALLED SYSTEM RESTART:
• TOTALLY STALLED SYSTEM RESTART:
• RESTART AFTER INSTRUMENT POWER INTERRUPTION:
• RESTART AFTER HEURIKON DSP BOX POWER INTERRUPTION:
• 1m Observing
• Account Maintenance
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