Command
dictionary for UltraDAS
This page is part of the ING manual INS-DAS-29:
Operations
manual for UltraDAS
- Syntax of command notations
- Selecting cameras in
commands
- abort: abort a run and discard
the
data
- arc: take and arc frame and archive it
- bias: do a bias frame and archive it
- bin: set binning factors
- dark: do a dark frame and archive
it
- dasreset: restart the camera
- detstat: print the detector
status
- finish: end a run and keep the
data
- flash: take a short dark-frame
with
preflash
and archive it
- flat: do a flat field (either on
the
dome
or on the sky) and archive it
- geometry: display detector
geometry;
set windows
with the mouse
- glance: do a run without saving to
disc
- multarc: take a series of arcs and
archive
all of
them
- multbias: take a series of bias frames
and
archive
all of them
- multdark: take a series of dark frames
and
archive
all of them
- multflash: take a series of preflash
frames and
archive all of them
- multflat: take a series of flat fields
and
archive
all of them
- multglance: take a series of glances
without
archiving
- multrun: take a series of science
exposures
and
archive all of them
- multsky: take a series of sky-background
exposures
and archive all of them
- newtime: change the length of
an
exposure
- obsdata: change data disc
- obssys: choose an observing system
- promote: promote a scratch observation file to a run file for archiving
- pupil: do a pupil exposure and
archive it
- rspeed: change the CCD readout-speed
- run: do a science exposure and
archive
it
- saveccd: save the CCD window, binning
and readout speed parameters
- scratch: do a run and keep it in a
scratch file
- setccd: set the CCD window, binning and
readout speed parameters to the previously used settings
- shutdownobssys: shut down part
of the
observing system
- shutter: open or shut the cameras
shutter
- sky: take a picture of the
background
sky
(e.g. to measure fringes) and archive it
- startobssys: start part of the
observing
system
- talker: start a message display
- tcs: Send an arbitrary user command
string
to the
TCS (See user command)
- udas_camera: start a camera
server
- udas_camera_mimic: start a
status
display for a camera
- udas_detect_ro : detect a
readout
- udas_hct: start the
header-collection
task
- udas_pkt_bridge: start a
header-collection packet bridge
- unsetccd: set the CCD window, binning
and readout speed parameters to their default settings
- user: Send an arbitrary user command
string
to
the TCS
- window: define, disable or re-enable
a
readout
window
Telescope Specific Commands
WHT
- ap_dither<N>: perform a
sequence of
runs with
telescope aperture offsets
- coave: set the number of coaverages to
be
performed
- clearreads: set the number of
pre-observation clearing reads to be
performed (INGRID and LIRIS only)
- cpol: perform ISIS circular polarisation
run sequence
(ISIS only)
- dither<N>: perform a sequence
of
runs with
telescope offsets
- filter: move filters to a specific
configuration
- focusrun: perform a sequence of
scratch
runs
at varying telescope focus settings
- lpol: perform ISIS linear polarisation
run
sequence
(ISIS only)
- rmode: set readout mode (INGRID, LIRIS, QUCAM and ANDOR cameras)
- rsrun: do a rapid spectroscopy run and
archive
it
- storemode: sets the required FITS
storage
mode for MNDR and read-up-the-ramp observations (INGRID and LIRIS only)
- tcsinfo: display a TCS INFO window
INT
JKT
- focusrun: perform a sequence of
scratch
runs
at varying telescope focus settings
- For JAG commands see JAG CCD user guide (hard copy in control
room)