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Summary of Contents for Kyoto Seimei
- Page 1 Seimei Telescope User’s Manual Umut BURGAZ burgaz.umut@gmail.com Kyoto University 10/2019...
- Page 2 Revision Sheet Release No. Date Revision Description Rev. 0 15/06/2019 Creation of Template & First Draft Rev. 1 04/10/2019 Second Draft...
- Page 3 Seimei Telescope User’s Manual In this manual I explain the Seimei Telescope usage procedure step-by-step. Procedure starts with manually setting-up the telescope mechanisms from the 3rd floor of the building. Process in this manual should NOT be used blindly without supervision...
- Page 4 2-) There should be 15cm distance between the Kanji Seal and ZeroPoint as shown below. From the stickers on the below image, you can understand if the position is correct or not. 3-) The two arrows, the one on bottom showing the Home position, shown below must be close to each other.
- Page 5 4-) On the control panels, power must be switch on as shown below. There are 3 units(2 bottom, 1 top). When switching on, the procedure should start from bottom- right -> bottom-left -> top-left. When switching off, top-left panel is accessed from computer so, we only need to close bottom panels manually.
- Page 6 6-) On the middle computer, type “./telescopeM5 ” to start the screen shown below where the user and location is : develop@localhost 7-) Take the controller shown below and push “All” -> “Down” to close the curtains. There is an automatic panel to move the curtains on the Main computer as well.
- Page 7 8-) Go down to the 1st floor. Type cont380 on the left-side computer. 9-) Upon typing cont380, a new screen will appear. You will be asked to enter the proposal ID. Here the “K” letter is for Kyoto. Choose the Proposal ID and type the observers name and click “Go ahead”.
- Page 8 10-) Zero Point must be set for all (position of telescope and mirrors). The process is now automatic. Under the Dome control, click Setup and choose the zeropoint searchs and click “Start”.
- Page 9 Feedback Control section. As long as we don’t see any errors on the right side of the screen, everything is okay. Difference around 500 is okay. 17-) On the second bottom left screen, we need to open the KOOLS software. For that need type “ ./KOOLS_obs_GUI.py”. terminal with “messia@kools2017” name. NOT “seimei@SeimeiConsole1”.
- Page 10 o Calibration Images 18-) Upon entering the script, a new screen will appear. Here we first click “Start” on top of the screen and then “Initialize all motors”.
- Page 11 19-) Choose VPH-blue from the “Filter and Grism” option but DO NOT start exposure sequence yet. 20-) We go back to the big screen on the left side and from the Main Controller panel click “Flat” 21-) Under Main Controller panel, on the right side of the screen, from “Instrument Select”, choose “Flat&Comparison”...
- Page 12 23-) Back to the second left bottom screen and write the Exposure time as a value between 15 to 20 seconds. Click “Start Exposure Sequence”. Wait until it finishes. We will only take 1 exposure first! Then if everything is okay, 4 more exposures. 24-) Open the created .fits file with ds9.
- Page 13 25-) Check if there is any oversaturation. We can check the Value across the image quickly. Any value below 65000 is good. Over 65000 means oversaturation. Therefore, image can’t be used and taken again. 26-) If everything is okay, take 4 more exposures with 20 seconds exposure time and check all for oversaturation as well.
- Page 14 29-) Go back to the screen with KOOLS and choose Exposure time = 1 second and Multiple exposure = 1. Then click Start exposure sequence. The .fits file should be like the image shown below. 30-) Back to the big screen on the left. From Lamp Control section click “OFF” for Ne. 31-) Again from the same Lamp Control Section, choose Hg-Lamp and click “ON”.
- Page 15 33-) Back to the big screen on the left. From Lamp Control section click “OFF” for Hg. 37-) When obtaining comparison images finish and the lamps are closed, it is time to get the BIAS images. For that, from KOOLS screen choose VPH-blue and set the Exposure time to 0(zero) seconds and Multiple exposure to 1.
- Page 16 41-) Make the Rotator “in” and Rotator Tracking mode “Star”. From the “Instrument Select” under the “Main Controller” section choose “Shack-Hartmann” and click “Change”. Enter the values before and turn Power to “ON” and Start the M1 Alignment. Check the feedback for difference (~500 is acceptable). 42-) From the “Instrument Select”...
- Page 17 44-) From the “Main Controller” section under “Useful Interfaces” click the “Control Pad” and a new window will open where you can move the aperture to the target star. Here if the aperture is not on, from “Markers and Guides” open the aperture. If you can’t see the star, try increasing the “Gain”...
- Page 18 45-) Now go back to the catalog you have opened. Change it to the observation catalog and your targets (with sky and near object) will appear. 1. Choose the near object first! (For example, n2019qtk) Since our actual target is too faint, we will calibrate our focus with a nearby bright object.
- Page 19 ! From is the process for how to close the system: 46-) From the main screen, Upper Light = ON and from the Initialization and Termination window, click “END”. On the new screen Choose All except “telescopeM5 Quit” and click “Start”.
- Page 20 47-) From the KOOLS screen, click MESSIA = STOP and close the screen. 48-) Go to the Feedback screen and click Feedback = STOP floor and push “POWER OFF” button starting 49-) Go to the control panels on the 3 from bottom right and bottom left panel.
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