#!/bin/csh # # Script for POINTING TEST on INT with IDS or WFC # # Before running the script you need to prepare the file tcs.cat and # to input temperature, pressure, humidity and wavelength for # calculation of atmospheric refraction; # set autoxy to 500000 500000 and autotime to 100 msec for IDS; # be aware that the INT has a dec limit of -30 degrees; # the system will slew to all sources listed in the catalogue. # You might want to split the whole pointing test into several parts, # running each time a sub-catalogue. # The full catalogue for the faint grid was copied to # /home/intobs/tcs_faint.cat, sources with dec < -30 were removed. # I did the first star manually, GOCAT first_star, checking the rotator # center on the autoguider (update this script if necessary), # guide on pixel x y and POINT NEW. # If you make the guide window bigger than 105x105 you get lots of # WARNING - tImgCapt - DMA transfer failed (timed out), using default # blank frame # # history: 17/10/2000 found script and made it work for IDS, Juerg Rey # 10/02/2004 modified, Robert Greimel # 27/05/2005 modified, Juerg Rey # initialize the system cmd TCS USER "ENTER APERTURE 0 1065 -42" agwin acq pos 1032 512 agwin gui size 240 240 # make sure that we are writing to a clean pointing data file cmd TCS USER "POINT NEW" # now loop over all the stars in the pointing grid foreach star ( `grep -v '^\!' ft.cat | awk '/[0-9]/ {print $1}' ` ) echo -n $star gocat $star if ($status == 0) then guide on pixel 1032 512 .5 .5 #rotator center WFC echo -n " ... pulling in " # this is a waiting loop to make sure that the autoguider had enough # time to pull in the star. It would be much nicer if we knew the # autoguider position error foreach i (1 2 3 4 5 6) echo -n "." sleep 8 end cmd TCS USER "POINT" guide off echo " done" else echo " ... out of range - skipping" endif end echo "resetting aperture 0" cmd TCS USER "ENTER APERTURE 0 -251 326" #WFC only