Follow these steps at the end of the night to turn LRIS off:
- If you were last taking dome flats, turn the lamps off.
- Shut down instrument.
From the desktop menu, select
LRIS Control...End of night shutdown.
This will:
- Close the trapdoor.
- Stow all blue optics in the carousels.
- Turn off all lamps.
- Stop all LRIS GUI windows.
- Stop guider eavesdrop.
Kill any existing guider eavesdrop window by going to
the desktop
menu and selecting
Guider Eavesdropping ... Guider Eavesdrop STOP.
- 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.
- Start Data Backup
Start backing up your data. Please see the Autobackup documentation for how to run autobackup.
- Log out
If data backups are complete, from the desktop menu, select the Exit... item to end your Xwindows session and log out of the workstation.