OBSERVING WITH THE INT: RECIPES

  This section describes the basic operations of observing with the Isaac Newton Telescope in the the form of itemised ``recipes''. The recipes are necessarily presented as a checklist of things to do, and are primarily intended as reference for experienced users of the Isaac Newton Telescope. Many of the individual actions are described in full detail in the reference sections of this manual; some items themselves stand for another checklist in this section.

• Starting up the INT
• Closing down the INT
• Startup and Shutdown of the PE3220 Telescope Computer
• Startup and Shutdown of the PE3210 Instrument Computer
• ZEROSET
• Acquiring an object
  • Slewing to an object
  • Using the Handset and Guide Buttons
  • RA/Dec Offsets
• Single-Star SNAFU at Cassegrain
• Single-Star SNAFU at Prime
• Focusing the telescope
  • Using the Handset
  • Via the User Interface
  • From the Engineering Rack
  • Finding the best Focus at Cassegrain
  • Finding the best focus at Prime
  • Using automatic Focus Adjustment at Prime
  • Autoguider Focus at Prime
• Acquiring a Guide Star
  • Locating guide stars at Prime Focus
  • Locating guide stars at the Cassegrain focus
  • Using guide stars of known RA and Dec (either focus)
  • Acquiring a guide star
• Beamswitching and Aperture Offsets
  • Using known aperture offsets
  • Setting apertures interactively
• Blind Offsets at Cassegrain
• Rotating the Cassegrain turntable
  • Under Computer Control
  • Under Manual Control
• Making a Hard Copy of a Grinnell TV image
• Archiving a Grinnell TV image