The CTIO IRS

 

• Introduction
• Entrance Mirror (RIP)
• Aperture Wheel
• Filter Wheel
• Gratings and their Tilts
• The IRS Cross Dispersed Grating
• General Motor Control
• Calibration Lamps
  • Commands for lamps:
• Detector Description
• Observing Efficiency (coadds vs. pics)
• Performance at the Telescope
• Observing Notes
• Acquisition and Guiding
  • Tip-tilt Camera
  • Offset Guide Probe
• Object Centering
  • Initialization of tip-tilt camera stage.
  • Centering on objects using imaging mode
  • Centering on bright objects using dispersed light
  • Centering on objects using crosshair in panoramic mode
• Getting Started With Observing