This document gives day-to-day operational information for HIRES. For general information about the telescope, see the Keck home page.

* Please read the Latest HIRES News. *

Operations and Planning Information

• Instrument Configuration Schedule (To check daily instrument readiness)
• Taking Calibrations for Your Data
• HIRES Troubleshooting Guide
• Contacting Instrument Specialists (Get help fast!)
• HIRES Spectroscopic Efficiency
• Weather info
• Position Angle Calculator
• HIRES Observing Log Sheet
• Full HIRES manual (postscript)
• Full HIRES manual (pdf)

User Interface

• Remote Operation of HIRES: Waimea
• Cut To the Chase
• Running HIRES
• Graphical Display for Exposure Control
• Graphical Display for Spectrograph Control
• How to run HIRES with the image rotator
• Choosing High or Low CCD Gain
• Command Language
• Windowing, Binning and Dual-Amp Readout
• Keywords
• TV and Lamp Filter Transmission Curves
• FIGDISP help
• HIRES Cross-Disperser Control

HIRES Simulators

• JAVA-based Signal to Noise Simulator
• Map of Comparison Lines on 2-D image
• Echelle simulator manual (PostScript: 806K)
  • HIRES-UV Cross Disperser Echelle Simulator spectrograph file 'hiresuv.spc'
  • HIRES-UV Cross Disperser Echelle Simulator settings file 'hiresuv.set'
  • HIRES Echelle Simulator ThAr line list 'wavesuv.dat' including UV lines
• Running/getting the echelle simulator

Keck Computer Environment

• Keck computing network
• Remote Monitoring of HIRES Observations (Santa Cruz)
• FTPing Data from Keck
• Backing up Data to Tape

Data Reduction

• Makee Reduction Package
• IRAF Information
  • HIRES IRAF input file for 'setinstrument'
• Mauna Kea extinction table

Maintenence

• HIRES VME Crates: Access, Booting Procedures, and Tasks
• Cross-disperser Change-out Procedure
• LN2 and You
• Power Up and Down Procedures for HIRES
• Filling the HIRES 50 Liter Dewar
• Focus history
• Guided tour with pictures

Detector Upgrade

• Effects of heat souce on PSF
• Requirements
• Compliance Matrix
• Commissioning and Science Verification
• Keck Observatory Archive User Interface

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Last modified: Tue May 16 20:29:53 HST 2006