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PREFACE

This guide aims to provide most of the available information to allow a user to operate the CCD camera on the JKT. The camera head has been operational since September 1985 and the full facilities of the new A and G unit have been available since November 1987.

Section 1 gives guidelines for using the CCD as a direct imaging instrument.

Section 2 gives details of the commands available for control and associated operations of the CCD camera.

Section 3 gives specific information on the usage of the A and G unit; the facilities and operational commands are described.

The Appendix, a separate document, gives details of the following:

• Photometric Standards.

• Photometric sequences.

• Some useful procedures.

• Notes for software support.

• Extinction.

• Cryostat description.

• <33>>Filters for use with the CCD cameras on La Palma.

• <34>>Filter and chip spectral response curves for La Palma.

• <35>>Blanks areas of sky for Flat Fields.

• FITS programs for data handling.

The parameters of each individual chip i.e. readout noise, cosmetic defects, etc are kept in folders which are located in the control room.