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vatt:vatt_don_warm_startup_checklist [2024/06/11 20:55]
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vatt:vatt_don_warm_startup_checklist [2025/10/26 19:35] (current)
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| ^ Comments & suggestions welcome ^ | ^ Comments & suggestions welcome ^ |
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| ^ ^Warm Startup / Jun 11, 2024 / P Gabor, M Franz et al.^^ ✔✘ | | ^ ^Warm Startup / Oct 26, 2025 / P Gabor, M Franz et al.^^ ✔✘ | |
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| ^ ^**Thermalizing M1 and its mirror cell** ^^ | | ^ ^**Thermalizing M1 and its mirror cell** ^^ | |
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| | ^ Control room|| | | | ^ Control room|| | |
| | 8-) | You will need one terminal to run a session on vattcontrol, and another to run a ''remote desktop'' on ProjectSoft PC 1 or ProjectSoft PC 2. You can use the latter (it being a Windows machine to open a browser and navigate to the live view feeds from the various cameras ([[vatt:surveilcams|Dome, Security & Finderscope Cameras]]). The key, however, is to run the TomPack Viewer (TPView) utility ([[don_by_projectsoft:psd-01-um|user manual]]). || | | | 8-) | You will need one terminal to run a session on vattcontrol, and another to run a ''remote desktop'' on ProjectSoft PC 1. You can use the latter (it being a Windows machine to open a browser and navigate to the live view feeds from the various cameras ([[vatt:surveilcams|Dome, Security & Finderscope Cameras]]). The key, however, is to run the TomPack Viewer (TPView) utility ([[don_by_projectsoft:psd-01-um|user manual]]). || | |
| |Control room|TURN ON VIDEO MONITORS for the legacy Dome, FinderScope and Porch Sky camera feeds, as well as the dome floodlight (left of the SW balcony door)|| | | |Control room|TURN ON VIDEO MONITORS for the legacy Dome, FinderScope and Porch Sky camera feeds, as well as the dome floodlight (left of the SW balcony door)|| | |
| |Control room|Enable ''Live View'' from the Hikvision dome, the Hikvision new FinderScope camera, and the Axis thermal IR P12 camera ([[vatt:surveilcams|Dome, Security & Finderscope Cameras]])|| | | |Control room|Enable ''Live View'' from the Hikvision dome, the Hikvision new FinderScope camera, and the Axis thermal IR P12 camera ([[vatt:surveilcams|Dome, Security & Finderscope Cameras]])|| | |
| |Control room|TomPack Viewer > Main Controls > Main 'Don' Power > ''ON'' || | | |Control room|TomPack Viewer > Main Controls > Main 'Don' Power > ''ON'' || | |
| |Control room|TomPack Viewer > Main Controls > Auxiliary Systems > Hexapod > ''ON'' || | | |Control room|TomPack Viewer > Technology 1 > Power Sockets > Hexapod Controller > ''ON'' || | |
| | |Control room|TomPack Viewer > Technology 1 > Power Sockets > Guidebox: multistrip > ''ON'' || | |
| | |Control room|TomPack Viewer > Technology 1 > Power Sockets > Guidebox: network etc > ''ON'' || | |
| | |Control room|TomPack Viewer > Technology 1 > Power Sockets > Guidebox: camera quad > ''ON'' || | |
| |Control room|TomPack Viewer > Main Controls > Auxiliary Systems > Automatic Startup > ''START'' || | | |Control room|TomPack Viewer > Main Controls > Auxiliary Systems > Automatic Startup > ''START'' || | |
| |Control room|TomPack Viewer > Main Controls > Dome > ''Auto'' || | | |Control room|TomPack Viewer > Main Controls > Dome > ''Auto'' || | |
| |Control room|Connect the Guidebox part of the GUI to the hardware by pressing the ''Connect'' button. After any loss of power to the Guidebox you must click ''Reference'' (the procedure takes several minutes). Use the ''Initialize'' button if one of the axes becomes unresponsive (e.g., stuck in a limit). In more extreme cases, e.g., coming out of lightning shutdown, the guide box is likely to run into communication problems. The remedy is to run the ''INDImon'' script (its launcher on ''VATTcontrol'''s desktop is labeled ''Restart indidriver''), selecting option ''0. Filter/Guidebox driver'' (to the following query, type "Y" followed by ''Enter'').|| | | |Control room|Connect the Guidebox part of the GUI to the hardware by pressing the ''Connect'' button. After any loss of power to the Guidebox you must click ''Reference'' (the procedure takes several minutes). Use the ''Initialize'' button if one of the axes becomes unresponsive (e.g., stuck in a limit). In more extreme cases, e.g., coming out of lightning shutdown, the guide box is likely to run into communication problems. The remedy is to run the ''INDImon'' script (its launcher on ''VATTcontrol'''s desktop is labeled ''Restart indidriver''), selecting option ''0. Filter/Guidebox driver'' (to the following query, type "Y" followed by ''Enter'').|| | |
| |Control room|__Start autocollimation__ (more detailed instructions are in [[vatt:hexapod|a separate document]]): Press ''Connect'' button; field surrounding button should turn green; press ''Reference'' button; field surrounding it turns yellow(ish); wait for it to turn green; press ''Auto Collimate'' button; M2 will move to previous night's final positions || | | |Control room|__Start autocollimation__ (more detailed instructions are in [[vatt:hexapod|a separate document]]): Press ''Connect'' button; field surrounding button should turn green; press ''Reference'' button; field surrounding it turns yellow(ish); wait for it to turn green; press ''Auto Collimate'' button; M2 will move to previous night's final positions || | |
| |Control room|__Start PHD2__ (double click desktop icon): your main reference should be [[phd2:phd2_guiding_abbreviated|a separate dedicated document]]; instructions that follow here are simplified|| | | |Control room|__Start MaximDL__ (on ProjectSoft PC 1) || | |
| |Control room|PHD2: Main tool bar, click icon that looks like a USB male connector: ''connect equipment'' window appears|| | | |Control room|__Start XEPHEM__ (double click desktop icon). We will be using XEPHEM as a star map only. Check that XEPHEM is communicating with 'Don': In Sky View, there ought to be a bull's-eye like symbol showing where VATT is pointing. When you use the GoTo command, the RA & Dec will be transferred to the input fields in TomPack.|| | |
| |Control room|PHD2: ''connect equipment'', in the camera row, click on ''Connect''.|| | | |
| |Control room|__Start XEPHEM__ (double click desktop icon). We will be using XEPHEM as a star map only. Unfortunately, XEPHEM cannot communicate with 'Don'. This means that the Sky View will not include the symbol showing where VATT is pointing, and we will not be able to use the GoTo command. Very soon we will have a new planetarium software, TheSkyX, which does communicate with 'Don'.|| | | |
| |Control room|XEPHEM: main window: click "Now" on top right and "Update" in bottom bar, then toggle the small "RT" button to the right of ''Looping'' ((These steps were unnecessary at one stage of software development.)); check that the bottom bar says ''Stop''|| | | |Control room|XEPHEM: main window: click "Now" on top right and "Update" in bottom bar, then toggle the small "RT" button to the right of ''Looping'' ((These steps were unnecessary at one stage of software development.)); check that the bottom bar says ''Stop''|| | |
| |Control room|XEPHEM: Open SKY VIEW window: go to the pull-down menu ''View'', and select the penultimate item, ''Sky view''. || | | |Control room|XEPHEM: Open SKY VIEW window: go to the pull-down menu ''View'', and select the penultimate item, ''Sky view''. || | |
| |Control room|XEPHEM: Open INDI window: go to the pull-down menu ''Telescope'', and select the item, ''INDI panel''. || | | |Control room|XEPHEM: SKY VIEW window: You might need to toggle "Alt-Az" (if it starts in "RA-Dec"). It is in the column of buttons in the top left of the window, seventh icon from the top.|| | |
| |Control room|XEPHEM > INDI: locate the word ''Connect'' (bottom of the window); there is a little square button to its left. It is probably engaged (depressed). Make sure it is disengaged. || | | |Control room|Start Trouble Report (TRVATT): In menu bar at top of //vattcontrol// desktop, start Firefox; Trouble Report page will open ([[https://observer-report.as.arizona.edu/]]). Fill in pertinent fields along top (Observer(s), Instrument, Operator(s), etc.).|| | |
| |Control room|XEPHEM: SKY VIEW window: We used to click grid control (under Images menu) twice, turning RA–DEC grid off and then Alt–Az grid on. This does not seem to work anymore. In the "Control" pull-down menu select "Options", which opens a new window, and toggle "Alt-Az" at the top left of the window.|| | | |
| |Control room|Start Trouble Report (TRVATT): In menu bar at top of //vattcontrol// desktop, start Firefox; Trouble Report page will open ([[https://cbtest.as.arizona.edu/mtnops-trouble-report/]]). Fill in pertinent fields along top (Observer(s), Instrument, Operator(s), etc.).|| | | |
| | 8-) |You can use meteorological data from TPView > Main Controls > Meteo Data (''Trends'' may provide values more representative; the plot shows moving averages depending on the horizontal scale). You may still benefit from the VATT Weather Dashboard (wfrog, the ''3 Hours'' tab). || | | | 8-) |You can use meteorological data from TPView > Main Controls > Meteo Data (''Trends'' may provide values more representative; the plot shows moving averages depending on the horizontal scale). You may still benefit from the VATT Weather Dashboard (wfrog, the ''3 Hours'' tab). || | |
| | ^TELESCOPE "Go Live" SEQUENCE COMPLETE|| | | | ^TELESCOPE "Go Live" SEQUENCE COMPLETE|| | |
