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A GUIDE TO OBSERVING

• INTRODUCTION
  • What CCDs are and how they work
  • Operational requirements
  • Limitations, Extra Observations, and the First Stages of Analysis
• WHICH CHIP? WHICH FOCUS?
• EXPOSURE TIME?
  • Signal-to-noise
  • Time limits
• WHAT EXTRA OBSERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED?
  • Bias Frames
  • Flat Fields
  • Dark counts
• PREPARATION FOR OBSERVING
  • Filters
  • Zeroing the main telescope and the finder
  • Telescope and autoguider focus
• OPERATING THE TELESCOPE
  • Acquisition
  • Autoguiding
  • To check and correct the INT prime focus geometry
• OBSERVING: A RECIPE
• ON-LINE HELP