WHT Telescope Control SystemRelease Notes for Version W23TCS-WHTREL-23Issue: 0.3 2004-08-24Author: M P Fishertcsman@ing.iac.es |
This document summarises the changes made to the latest version in the W22 release tree of the WHT Telescope Control System, W22-0-0, to produce the release tree W23.
Version | Date | Description | Author(s) |
W9-0-0 | 26-Sep-1999 | First version built with VMS 7.1 | MPF |
W10-1-0 | 22-Oct-1999 | New commands CLONE & GOMOON; updated IERS params & GHRIL IR derot model | RPC/MPF |
W12-0-6 | 17-Mar-2000 | Display instrument rotator limits, add INGRID support | RPC |
W14-1-4 | 2-Aug-2000 | New command SLOWOFF, write sky PA not mount PA in headers, update GHRIL IR derot corrections | RPC |
W14-1-6 | 21-Aug-2000 | Add support for NAOMI autoguider | RPC |
W14-1-7 | 1-Sep-2000 | Encoder & autoguider logs are stored on separate disk | RPC |
W14-1-8 | 15-Sep-2000 | Default to DRAMA comms | RPC |
W14-1-10 | 6-Nov-2000 | FOCUS & DOME commands always send completion status to DRAMA | RPC |
W14-1-11 | 18-Nov-2000 | TELD timeout values changed for INGRID compatibility | RPC |
W14-1-14 | 5-Jan-2001 | New Cass & GHRIL pointing models, IERS update | RPC |
W15-0-0 | 6-Mar-2001 | Revert to correct version of time-to-limits code | MPF |
W15-1-0 | 29-Mar-2001 | Fix problem with RA, Dec having half true value in headers | MPF |
W15-1-1 | 28-Apr-2001 | Revert to old Cass & GHRIL pointing models | MPF |
W16-0-0 | 4-Jun-2001 | New Cass & GHRIL pointing models, improved SLOWOFF command, add TWEAK as a DRAMA action | MPF |
W16-0-1 | 12-Jul-2001 | New position of azimuth zeroset target | MPF |
W16-1-0 | 12-Oct-2001 | Same as W16-0-1, but using DRAMA v1.3 | MPF |
W17-1-0 | 1-Sep-2001 | Simultaneous use of TCS from DECnet & DRAMA, log TELD messages, uses DRAMA v1.3 | MPF |
W17-2-0 | 24-Oct-2001 | Start TELD from menu, log focus encoder, ICL command completion fixed | MPF |
W17-4-0 | 30-Oct-2001 | Negative longitude for headers, fix problems with data blocks sent to dtasks | MPF |
W17-5-0 | 15-Jul-2002 | Fixed memory leak | RR/MPF |
W17-5-1 | 3-Jan-2003 | Add support for acquisition TV as AF2 autoguider | MPF |
W18-0-0 | 22-Jan-2003 | New LOG command, fix rotator glitch at azimuth reversal, focus-temp correction at Prime | MPF |
W18-0-4 | 17-Feb-2003 | Add LIRIS values | MPF/FJG |
W19-0-0 | 9-Mar-2003 | New logging process logs to 30 minute ring file, focus data logged continuously. | MPF |
W20-0-1 | 14-Apr-2003 | Configure NAOMI in GRACE, replacing UES. | FJG |
W20-1-0 | 26-May-2003 | Encoder logging bug fixes. | MPF |
W20-1-3 | 10-Jul-2003 | New GRACE pointing model. | MPF |
W20-1-4 | 22-Aug-2003 | Uses new SDSU autoguider for INTEGRAL. | MPF |
W21-2-1 | 18-Sep-2003 | Implementation of nominal positional offset, and ability to use cumulative slow offsets. CTRL-C from a script no longer stops the telescope. | MPF |
W21-2-2 | 9-Oct-2003 | New altitude target zeroset position. | MPF |
W21-3-0 | 21-Nov-2003 | Fix bug in differential tracking. | MPF |
W21-3-1 | 6-Dec-2003 | Uses new SDSU autoguider for Cass. | FJG |
W22-0-0 | 17-Dec-2003 | Extra focus items added to TCS FITS packet. | MPF |
W23-0-0 | 12-Jan-2004 | Improved TCS-ICS DRAMA communication; improved reporting of tracking status. | MPF |
W23-1-1 |
12-Mar-2004 |
System catalogue stored with TCS version tree. New Prime pointing model. | MPF |
W23-1-2 |
30-Apr-2004 |
Add support for instrument Ultracam. |
FJG |
W23-1-3 |
7-Jul-2004 |
Add support for SCAM/STJ with UV derotator in GHRIL |
FJG |
W23-1-4 |
10-Jul-2004 |
STJ autoguiding parameters corrected |
FJG |
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The Postscript file does not contain the changes made during the last year or so. The User Manual is being updated, and will be available both as a pdf file and an html file.
W23-0-0 comprises the following subsystem versions; any changes made to a subsystem since W22-0-0 are listed.
W23-1-1 is the same as W23-0-0 apart from the changes to the following subsystems.