Background

The QACITS sofware is in charge of keeping the star image accurately centered in the Vortex coronagraph. Details on how to run QACITS during the night can be found in the QACITS User Manual. This page describes how to install QACITS in a numbered account and how to check the software is ready for the night observations.

Procedure

Let us assume observers using Vortex have been assigned the numbered account nirc16 (note that this procedure would be valid for any other numbered account), the directory /home/nirc16 exists in kapoho, and the VNC servers for nirc16 have already been created.


QACITS daytime deployment final screen.