Required at the End of Night (Keck Policy for All Instruments)
- After observing is done, you must run the END OF NIGHT SHUTDOWN. This will perform the necessary actions that put the instrument into a safe state for the next day:
- Turns off all calibration lamps
- Turns off the Iodine Cell
- Shuts down the Exposure Meter
- Puts all the covers back on to protect the HIRES optics
- It will NOT move the echelle or cross-disperser gratings
- It will NOT change the focus position of the HIRES camera optics
- All GUIs will shut down, but they can be easy re-started the next evening with no change to the previous night's settings
Summary
Procedure
Kill any existing MAGIQ guider eavesdrop window by selecting File > Exit.
Kill any existing FACSUM and Xmet windows by
clicking the "X" at the top right of the window.
- 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.
- 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.
- This section can be skipped if you chose to use the calibration tool mentioned above to shut down the instrument for you.
- Using the mouse, move the cursor out of any existing
window and onto the background.
- Press and hold the right mouse button to bring up the
window manager's popup menu.
- Move the cursor onto the item labeled HIRES
Control Menu, bringing up another submenu.
- Move the cursor onto the item labeled
End of Night Shutdown and
release the mouse button.
- 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.
- 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.
- Advice on how to back up your data can be found here .
If it is important to keep your targets confidential, be
sure to delete your starlist file.
If you would like a copy of our electronic log for your run, you
must save or print a copy before leaving (since the logs are not
externally accessible). Please consult the instructions posted on
the KEOLA
webpage.
Please complete a Post
Observing Comments form to let us know how your run went. You
responses to this form are logged and tracked and are important to
us in maintaining and improving nighttime observing operations.
- 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.
- 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.
Before leaving remote ops, please be sure you have all your
belongings and throw away any trash.
