Mirror covers are the last thing to open at the start of the night/first to close at end
Know where telescope is in relation to the ladders on platform, will hardware paddle cord snag on anything? Make sure people are out of the way
No one can move the telescope unless they are certified.
When you leave for the night, make sure you disable the telescope in TCS.
Limits-use good judgement!
Check the weather outside regularly, use good judgement
Lightning shutdown
How to close and stow the dome, no autodome, how they’ll have to adjust dome slightly to keep scope pointed out the slit.
How to correctly use finderscopes, especially to center stars in the FOV to initialize using the hand paddle. If star is not visible in the eyepiece, check the finderscopes mounted on the telescope. If the star is in there, center star in that field of view, and then center in the eyepiece’s field of view. If the star is not in those finderscopes, use the video finderscope, which has a larger field of view, and center the star using the screen by the monitor running TCS-NG. Once centered, you can then center the star in the finderscopes attached to the telescope, and then you can center the star in the eyepiece.
Losing pointing and how to recover
Alcohol/drug abuse not permitted