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Schulman Telescope Shutdown Procedure
Telescope and Dome
Close the telescope Mirror Covers.
Close observatory Dome (if not already closed).
Park the telescope (or move it to the park position and turn the tracking off). Make certain telescope is not tracking.
Make sure to leave the telescope in a balanced state. This means either with the camera on or Eyepiece and weights.
Rotate Dome (any method) to chosen safe position. Park position is currently at 59 degrees
Azimuth.
Main Computer
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Close any running software on the desktop.
Controller Shutdown
Using VNC access PubSub.
Shutdown the Agent Platform:
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Open a terminal using either the terminal icon at the top of the desktop or by Right Clicking on the desktop as shown below:
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At the prompt in the new terminal window type “sudo poweroff” → This will shutdown PubSub.
Using VNC access the MIC computer.
Open a new terminal and again execute “subo poweroff”
Wait 2 minutes (to make certain these computers shutdown “nicely”)
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Main Computer and UPS's
Turn off the Large UPS (for telescope controller) by pressing the “power” button. The screen indicates the instructions.
Unplug the Large UPS from the wall.
Shutdown main observatory computer.
Turn off small UPS (for computer and remote power outlets).
Unplug from power source.
In Warm room unplug the CAT5 cables that give service to the main observatory computer and the telescope controller.
Consider covering telescope, observatory desk and television.