The DEIMOS Slitmask Imaging Widget will rapidly acquire direct images of your slitmasks for use in performing afternoon calibration of the slitmask alignment software and for verifying your slitmask designs.

Please, Follow these instructions to use it:

  1. Launch the tool from the VNC pulldown menu by selecting DEIMOS Utilities → Slitmask Imaging Tool.
  2. Configure the spectrograph with your primary grating
  3. Under SLITMASKS, click on the names of all masks to be observed using this grating.
  4. Click GO to acquire images of the selected masks. The script will:
  5. (Optional) If a secondary grating will be used, repeat the previous steps using the other grating.

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