The following routine is recommended to end the night.

Summary

Run End-of-Night Shutdown

Right-click in the background to get the pull-down menu.
Select "NIRSPEC Control Menu" --> "*End of Night Shutdown*"

    This will do the following:
  1. Close the hatch
  2. Insert the BLANK filter
  3. Kill all NIRSPEC GUIs
  4. Shutdown and restart the NIRSPEC server

If the End of night shutdown fails for any reason, try running "NIRSPEC Control Menu" --> "Kill GUIs Restart Server".

Exit MAGIQ ObserverUI

From the background menu with the right mouse button, select "K2 Guider Eavesdropping" --> "MAGIQ (guider)" --> "STOP ObserverUI"

Exit other windows

Kill any FACSUM or XMET tools you have up by holding the Right Mouse button in the window's titlebar and selecting "Close"

Write your data backup

Please see the DVD/CD Data Backup documentation for more information on our DVD/CD data backup process. Writing a full night's data to DVD typically takes up to 1 hour or so.

Remove Starlist File

If it is important to keep your targets confidential, be sure to delete your starlist file. If it was changed, be sure you have saved a copy.

Print Electronic Log

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.

Complete POC Form

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.

Logout

Log out of the host machine from which you ran NIRSPEC (i.e, Pohue) via the pull-down menu accessed by right clicking in the background of that machine's native display window: "Exit FVWM".