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The MIMIC display

The MIMIC display running on the VAXstation 3100 gives mainly-graphical representations of the current status of the telescope, instruments and detectors. There are a number of pages, which can be selected using the mouse. Current pages include:

A small version of the CCD summary page is permanently displayed. There are in addition individual pages for CAGB, AUTOguider, ISIS_SLIT and FOS, but the information from these has been incorporated into the ISIS SUMMARY page.

The current state of any mechanism or light path is identified by its represented colour
on the MIMIC screen. The colour scheme is:

The following ICL commands relate to the MIMIC (they are only normally needed when problems occur):


Fri Jan 7 15:34:48 GMT 1994