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SETUP AND OBSERVING PROCEDURES

• Setup Procedures
  • Starting the computer systems
  • Configuration of the A&G Box and Spectrograph
    • Changing Gratings
    • Changing Filters in the Main (A&G box) slides
    • Changing components in the slit area
    • Directing light to the right cameras
    • Setting Grating Angles
    • The Slit Area
    • Configuring the Spectrograph for Spectropolarimetry
  • Setting up the CCD Detectors
    • Rotation
    • Tilt and coarse Focus
    • Collimator Focus
    • Hartmann test using the DMS
    • Hartmann test using the Vax
    • Minimum-FWHM using the VAX
  • Setting up the IPCS
    • Camera Head Rotation
    • S--Distortion Correction
    • Collimator Focus
    • Hartmann test using the DMS
    • Hartmann test using the Vax 4000
    • Minimum-FWHM using the VAX
  • Installation and Setup for Fibre observing
    • Fibre slit mounting
    • Fibre slit alignment
    • Guide fibre bundle focussing
    • Spectrograph set up
  • Setting up FOS
• Observing Procedures
  • Observing with one or two CCDs
    • TV Focus
    • Instrument Calibration Data
    • Acquiring data on the sky
    • Acquiring faint objects
    • Acquiring guide stars
    • Wavelength Calibration
  • Observing with IPCS only or with CCD and IPCS
    • TV Focus
    • Switching on the IPCS EHT voltage
    • Instrument Calibration Data
    • Acquiring data on the sky
  • Time-resolved observations with ISIS
    • Sources of dead-time
    • Reducing dead-time
    • Future developments
    • A note on accurate time and ISIS
  • Observing with FOS
    • Data reduction
  • Spectropolarimetry
    • How to derive the Stokes parameters
    • Imaging Polarimetry
  • Observing with Fibres
    • Telescope focusing on the aperture plate.
    • Adjustment of the rotator axis and orientation.
    • Field acquisition
    • Calibration
    • Data reduction