Troubleshooting guide

4. Open the shortcuts menu. Many of the common FLAMINGOS commands which do not require arguments
may now be run from a shortcuts menu on the mayall-2 or mayall-3 desktop. Double-click on the
FLAMINGOS icon to bring up the menu (Figure 2). In the following, the appropriate button will be noted in
square brackets along with the command line input.
Figure 2: Command menu on the mayall-2/3 desktop.
BUTTON FLAMINGOS COMMAND
Configure Exposure config.exposure.pl
Set Exposure Time set.exposuretime.pl
Initialize Wheels engineering.config.filter.grism.decker.wheels.pl
Move Wheels config.rel.mv.filter.grism.decker.wheels.pl
Move MOS Wheel config.rel.mv.mos.wheel.pl
Set Dither Pattern config.dither.kpno.pl
Execute Dither dither.source.kpno.pl
Configure Spectroscopy config.mos.dither.kp4m.pl
Take Spectrum dither.mos.kp4m.pl
Take Image singleimage.pl
5. Set up header information, data location, file names. Several parameters need to be set before taking an
exposure. The script config.exposure.pl [Configure Exposure] will print out a list of exposure parameters,
and query if you wish to change any of them. If you do, you can step through each of the modifiable
parameters; enter the new value or hit return to keep the old value. Here is a complete list of parameters that
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