Using the right mouse button in blue space on any Keck sun workstation will bring up two submenu possibilites:

"HIRES Summit Tools": Use this menu when running Hires from `makua' only.

"HIRES Remote Tools": for running Hires from ANY other workstation.

The `Hires Summit Tools'

  • Help-Mosaic: what this is

  • Start Up: starts up Hires user-interface software

  • Shut Down: self explanatory; run after observing

  • echelle simulator: the Hires echelle format simulator: START THIS FIRST for proper color table allocation, if it is run on the same display as the Hires control software

  • s/n simulator: the Hires signal/noise simulator

  • xhires: Graphical Display for Spectrograph Control

  • xpose: Graphical Display for Exposure Control

  • Telescope: an xshow of various keywords relevant to observing

  • compass roses: showing orientation of sky relative to guider

    • The "Hires Remote Tools"

  • Help-Mosaic: what this is

  • Start Up: starts up Hires user-interface software

  • Shut Down: self explanatory; run after observing

  • echelle simulator: the Hires echelle format simulator: START THIS FIRST for proper color table allocation, if it is run on the same display as the Hires control software

  • s/n simulator: the Hires signal/noise simulator

  • xhires: Graphical display for spectrograph control; remotely, it runs in simulate mode only, for setting up 'go' scripts

  • Guider Eavesdrop: brings up a local guider display

  • Guider Eavesdrop Stop: properly stops guider display software

  • Telescope: an xshow of various keywords relevant to observing

  • compass roses: showing orientation of sky relative to guider

    • Irregularities

    1. When 'echelle' is run from remote tools on a summit workstation, the printer variable will be set for HP. To avoid this, 'xhost +makua' from your host, rlogin to makua, 'setenv DISPLAY hostname:0', and run the program by typing 'echelle'.

    2. When 'echelle' is run from the pull-down menus, the *.set and 'kics' files will be written to the user home directory. The 'xhires' tool 'go' only reads 'kics' setups from the subdirectory setups/. Thus you will need to copy your 'kics' setups to this directory. Note that the next release of 'echelle' will only write out two keywords to 'kics' files: echangl and xdangle; the utility of writing 'go-kics' files from echelle will then intentionally fade away.

    3. It is intended that all remote tools will work from the two-headed display 'honolii'. Currently, it is suggested that one does not run the spectrograph on 'honolii'. However, all other remote tools will run there; in particular, guider eavesdropping and running 'echelle' are encouraged.