High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer     End of Night Shutdown Checklist

Summary

• Stop guider eavesdrop
• Take end of night calibrations
• Shutdown the instrument
• Back up your data
• Log out

Stop guider eavesdrop

1. Gracefully kill any existing guider eavesdrop window by going to the window manager's pulldown menu.
2. Follow the Guider Eavesdropping link and select Guider Eavesdrop STOP .
3. Stop the compass rose window by manually killing it.

Take end of night calibrations

1. Take whatever flats, comparisons, darks, or biases you need. This can be done manually if you prefer. If so, you will have to manually set exposure times, change filters, turn lamps on and off, start exposures etc.
2. Alternatively, you can use the calibration tool that was provided upon startup to automatically take all the calibrations you need and then automatically shutdown the instrument. If you choose this option, please remember to ask your support astronomer for advice on its use before they leave for the night. Here is what the calibration tool looks like.

Shutdown the instrument

1. This section can be skipped if you chose to use the calibration tool mentioned above to shut down the instrument for you.
2. Using the mouse, move the cursor out of any existing window and onto the background.
3. Press and hold the right mouse button to bring up the window manager's popup menu.
4. Move the cursor onto the item labeled HIRES Control Menu, bringing up another submenu.
5. Move the cursor onto the item labeled End of Night Shutdown and release the mouse button.
6. It is important that you shutdown the instrument this way since it will make sure all covers and the instrument hatch get closed and all lamps are turned off.

Back up your data

1. Even though your HIRES data can be obtained from the HIRES archive, we still recommend you make a backup of your data to take with you when you leave. Ingestion of data into the archive is not immediate.
2. Advice on how to back up your data can be found here . Please do not run this from the 3-headed machine (haleiwa) you have been using to run the instrument. Someone else may want to the run the instrument and it may not be obvious to them that your backup is

Log out

1. If you chose to use the calibration tool mentioned above to shut down the instrument for you it will not log you out. Please remember to do so after you have got some sleep.
2. Once you have all your calibrations, and your back up job has been launched on a machine other than the one you have been using to run the instrument; use the window manager's pulldown menu, select the Exit....item to log out.

Contacts at Keck for HIRES are     (primary),     (secondary).