At the telescope:
In the control room on the "bok" computer:
- Log into the bokobs account. The password is located on the whiteboard
in the control room. If this is the first night of your observing run, it
is highly recommended that you reset the bokobs account to delete data files
placed on the disk by previous BCSpec users. During your run, be VERY careful using the reset bokobs command. Make sure that you have archived all of your data on another machine, data tape, CD, and/or DVD since resetting the account will
DELETE all of your data on bok. If you decide to change the bokobs password, make sure that you accurately record the new password on the whiteboard in the control room.
- In a terminal window, start the Opto22 server by typing
optoserver or by clicking on the Optoserver icon on the desktop.
- In another terminal window on bok, start the data server by typing
dataserver or by clicking on the Dataserver icon on the desktop.
CAUTION: Make sure that there are no ds9 display
windows on the desktop before staring the dataserver script. The script
will create a ds9 display window for you and this is where your CCD exposures
will be automatically displayed.
In the control room on the "bokccd" computer:
- Start AzCamTool and AzCamServer by clicking on
the "StartBCSpec" icon on the bokccd desktop.
- You can now use the main control panel of AzCamTool to set
data storage paths, detector parameters, selected image header values, and acquire data. The AzCam system is quite intuitive and its
User's Guide offers a good overview of its functionality.
- Observers typically set the data storage path so that
images are transferred to the 'bok'
computer. However, one is able to write images to a directory on 'bokccd' instead. This option is especially useful in the event that you are experiencing
network communication problems between the two machines.