User`s guide

FLAMINGOS at the MMT
II. Getting Started....
...at the beginning of your run (or in case of crashes):
When you arrive at the telescope, you will have to bring up the FLAMINGOS windows and
initialize the system. This is a procedure that will hopefully only need to be done once at the beginning of your
run, however, you may need to repeat this process during the course of your observing time if the system
crashes. Taking it from the top, the startup procedure is as follows:
1. Log onto cfaguider and packrat - the login and password are usually written on a piece of paper taped inside
of the desk drawer on the right, where the astronomer sits.
The cfaguider login should automatically start a program called mountdisplay, which starts a window
titled MMTO Status; this shows where the telescope is presently pointed. Another window titled Paddle
should start as well; this may be used for offseting the telescope, however flamingos1b has a set of scripts
for doing this.
The packrat login should start an xgterm titled Flamingos Control. It should also start x2x to
cfaguider and set xhost to allow display connections from flamingos1b. If for some reason you cannot
access the cfaguider monitor using the packrat mouse, use the packrat desktop pulldown titled Restart
X2X.
2. From the Flamingos Control xgterm, rsh into flamingos1b, as mmtguest. The password is in the same
location as for logging into packrat. The command is
flamingos packrat 1> rsh -l mmtguest flamingos1b
3. Open a ds9 and an xgterm, and start iraf and start iraf:
mmtguest@flamingos1b{1} iraf.start.mmt.sh
ds9 should start on the right-hand monitor, and an xgterm labeled flamingos_iraf should appear on the
central monitor; in this xgterm type cl to start iraf.
4. You are now ready to initialize FLAMINGOS! This is done by running the command
mmt.initflam.pl. This will initialize several software agents and start the following windows on
cfaguider's monitor (the left-hand monitor):
Temperature Daemon - This daemon reads temperatures from 5 different sensors in FLAMINGOS with
the following output written to the screen:
UFLakeShore208Agent::ancillary
>new reading:(2002:170:05:24:06.920436) 1,75.67 2,82.05 4,76.04
5,76.67 6,82.73
You should always keep an eye on the array temperature ( ~76 K, in the example above where it says 1,
75.67 ) and the MOS dewar temperature (~83 K, where it says 6,82.73 in the example above). The array
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