Kyoto Seimei, User Manual

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: ...ess in this manual should NOT be used blindly without supervision by any means o Telescope Setup 1 On the 3rd floor of the building just across the entrance hall check the mechanism Correct shape is an L shape If the mechanism is like this _ı it must be switched to the L shape You can easly understand if the position is correct by looking at the stickers at the image below they must be on same clo...

Page 4: ...ween 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: ... 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 5 If the telescope is on on the left side computer we will have the screen below ...

Page 6: ...copeM5 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: ... 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: ...6 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: ...on 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 we need to type KOOLS_obs_GUI py we use the terminal with messia kools2017 name NOT seimei SeimeiConsole1 ...

Page 10: ...8 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: ...20 We go back to the big screen on the left side and from the Main Controller panel we click Flat 21 Under Main Controller panel on the right side of the screen from Instrument Select we choose Flat Comparison and click Change 22 Under Instrument Select from the Lamp Control Click Flat lamp ON ...

Page 12: ...creen 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: ... 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 27 Back to the big screen on the left From Lamp Control section click OFF for Flat Lamp 28 Again from the same Lamp Control Section choose Ne Lamp and click ON ...

Page 14: ... 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 32 Go back to the screen with KOOLS and choose Exposure time 5 second and Multiple exposure 1 Then click Start exposure sequence The fits file should be ike the image shown below We can also use the Scale Parameters from ds9 to quickly check for oversaturation ...

Page 15: ...ime to 0 zero seconds and Multiple exposure to 1 Repeat it for 4 5 times NO Dark files are needed because the CCD temperature is really low 38 After taking the BIAS images finish go back to the big screen and click Home to set the telescope to home position o Observations 39 From Dome Control open the Dome and make Rotation Auto and Shutter OPEN 40 Connect the ZWO Camera from the menu below Choose...

Page 16: ...e 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 under the Main Controller section choose ZWO Cam and click Change 43 From the Main Controller section under Useful Interfaces click the Catalog and open the dat file with a bright object sh3 dat etc and click Go Tracking ...

Page 17: ...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 or Exposure time If the star is not focused from the Main Controller page try to adjust the number ...

Page 18: ...OLS IFU camera is selected target is well focused the feedback is within acceptable range and there is no error message anywhere 5 From the MESSIA with VPH Blue write the exposure time as 600 seconds and multiple exposure as 1 Then click Start exposure sequence You can open the sound if you want to hear when the observations finished 6 After taking one spectrum go back to the catalog screen and ch...

Page 19: ...s 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: ...n starting from bottom right and bottom left panel 50 From the controller open the curtains by pressing ALL UP NOTES If the messia login is not open write the code below to open it Password is Kyoto3 8m Taking lamp images after the observations 1 before the observation 1 after observation will improve the calibration quality If there is rain outside rain detectors will show it like below ...