GUIDE-STAR SEARCH (GSS)

USERS' MANUAL

JUNE 15, 1998

Robert Laing

• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Introduction
• The Guide-Star Catalogue
• Running GSS
  • General
  • La Palma: normal operation
  • La Palma: operation from CD-ROM (emergencies only)
  • RGO: the GSS account
• Simple use of the program
  • Standard configurations
  • Finding Guide Stars
  • Guide stars for closed-loop offsetting
  • Finding guide stars for a large number of targets
• Configurations and Target Data
  • Configurations
  • Target data
• Commands
  • Data entry
  • Actions
• Input and output files
  • Catalogues
  • Command Files
  • Output Files
• Search Procedures: General
  • Definitions
  • Conversion between equatorial coordinate systems
  • Choice of an initial search area
  • Equatorial to tangent plane conversion
  • Apertures
  • Radial distortion
  • Conversion to guide-probe coordinates
• Detailed description of the search areas
  • Tables
  • Notes
    • WHT CASS
    • WHT AUXPORT
    • WHT TAURUS
    • WHT UESPROBE
    • INT PRIME
    • INT CASS
    • JKT f/8 (WFCE and WFCW)
    • JKT f/15 (CCDE and CCDW
    • NONE: simple search
• The CONFIG.DAT file
• Example Plots
• About this document ...