DEIMOS
End-of-Night Shutdown Checklist

Follow these steps to shut down DEIMOS and associated systems at the end of the night.

  1. Perform End-of-Night Shutdown
    From the OpenWindows menu, select DEIMOS Control Menu > End-of-Night Shutdown. This will perform the following functions:
    • Close the hatch
    • Retract slitmask from beam
    • Turn off all calibration lamps
    • Turn off all FCS lamps
    • Set the FCS mode idle
    • Halt the fcstrack software
    • Close the dewar shutter
    • Disable DCS control of the rotator
    • Close all DEIMOS GUIs (including FCS windows)
  2. Stop guider eavesdrop
    Kill any existing guider eavesdrop window by going to the window manager's pulldown menu and selecting Guider Eavesdropping > Stop Eavesdrop.
  3. Stop other windows
    Kill any existing FACSUM and TkRose windows by clicking and holding the right mouse button in the window's titlebar and releasing on the QUIT item.
  4. Specify any configuration changes
    If you will be observing with DEIMOS again tonight and need to alter your slitmask configuration based on what you accomplished, email your request to the .
  5. Compress data directory
    You may want to compress your images using gzip your science images in order to fit more images onto tape or to reduce the transfer time across the network. To compress all images in the current data directory, simply select the DEIMOS Utilities > Compress data directory option from the OpenWindows menu. Be aware that performing even a ``fast'' compression will require about two minutes per image.
  6. Save data to tape
    If this is the end of your run and you want to save data to tape, insert a tape in the drive and run the mktartape script on that machine to write the tape and optional logfile.
  7. Log out
    From the window manager's pulldown menu, select the Exit... item to end your Xwindows session and log out of the workstation.
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Last modified: Tue Oct 1 15:51:00 HST 2002