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Observer Cookbook at McDonald

If you've never observed with IGRINS before start here!

This guide outlines:

• IGRINS & Atlas Computer Set Up

• How to take Flats

• The Dome Opening Procedure

• What to do at the start of the night

• How to set up guiding (on- and off- slit)

• Using the IGRINS Slit Camera Viewer (SVC)

• Using the IGRINS Data Taking Package (DTP) (needs to be updated 20241206)

• How to identify A0V Stars to observe (needs directions on how to upload to TCS 20241206)

• How to take a 300s Sky Frame

• Rotating IGRINS on the telescope

• Closing Procedure

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• IGRINS Instrument Information

• Slit Viewer Field-of-View

• SNR Estimates and Guidelines at McDonald

• Using the Pipeline Package

• What to bring on your observing run? (Needs to be updated–20241206)

• IGRINS Observing Planner

Useful webpages

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• Starting up IGRINS computers & data taking software

• Taking Calibrations

• Dome Opening Procedure

• Position Angle Changes (needs to be updated--20241206)

• Worklists

• Rotation PA -> Encoder Table for IGRINS

• Telescope Pointing Procedure (still true, add to Observer Cookbook--20241206)

• How to zero the telescope pointing in TCS

• Dither Directions in the Slitview Image

• On-Slit Guiding

• Off-Slit Guiding (for experienced users only)

• Using the IGRINS Data Taking Package (needs to be updated for new GUI--20241206)

• Data Requests and Transfers (update once IGRINS Box is up and running–20241206)

• A0V Star TCS Worklists

• The Slit Camera Viewer (SCV) GUI

• The Data Taking Package (DTP) GUI

• Using the Data Taking Package (DTP)

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• Atlas is frozen or unable to log inhttps://cloud.wikis.utexas.edu/wiki/x/KoFdF (experienced users only)

• Slit Viewing Camera not taking images

2014 Troubleshooting

These are old troubleshooting guides that may or may not be relevant to any issues that will occur in the present for IGRINS–we are keeping them here for reference in case any of these issues occur. If one of these issues occurs, before trying any fixes reach out to Greg Mace (gmace@astro.as.utexas.edu) to report the problem and discuss potential solutions.

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