Welcome to the technical portal of the AO web pages. These pages are meant for Keck staff
Daytime Procedures
Documentation
NGS-AO calibrations
OSIRIS NGS-AO cals
NIRC2 NGS-AO cals
NIRSPAO NGS-AO AO cals
LGS-AO calibrations
OSIRIS LGS-AO cals
NIRC2 LGS-AO cals
NIRSPAO LGS-AO cals
AO calibrations check (NGS or LGS)
OSIRIS AO calibrations check
NIRC2 AO calibrations check
NIRSPAO AO calibrations check
Other daytime procedures
Phase diversity measurements with NIRC2
RTC upgrade
RTC troubleshooting (SharePoint)
Operations
Visual AO Bench + Documentation
Training
AO Overview
TOPTICA laser background
Papers
KAPA SPIE Overview
Pyramid JATIS (2020) Paper
Pyramid SPIE Overview
,
(local copy)
Old
Optics Page
Nighttime Procedures
General
LGS Checkout
NIRC2 CLS checkout
NIRSPAO CLS checkout
OSIRIS FST checkout
K2 LGS Pointing Recovery
HAKA
HAKA Nighttime Operations
HAKA Performance
TRICK
TRICK basics
TRICK software
TRICK target acquisition
TRICK operation note
TRICK SPIE Paper (2014)
KPIC
Check
KPIC web page at Caltech
first for the latest version of
the documentation.
Optical Layout
Version 1
Version 2
Daytime Calibrations
Link to KPIC page at Caltech
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Daytime calibration procedure
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Local copy
Observing Instructions
Link to KPIC page at Caltech
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Nighttime observing instructions
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Local copy
Troubleshooting
Link to KPIC page at Caltech
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Troubleshooting
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Local copy
NIRC2 distortion calibration
Night operations with the PyWFS
Software Tools:
LB Image Acq
LB Manager
WFS Intensity Display
Advanced documentation:
KPIC BMC DM control notes
Switching between PyWFS and SH WFS
PyWFS tips and ticks
NIRSPEC begin run AO check
PyAO:
Sharepoint
Documentation (internal)
Github (private)