This section contains manuals, usage notes, and other reference information that will be useful to the users of the NeXTStep-based CCD system, the tip-tilt system, and the new autoguider, It does not include manuals for the 8k mosaic, QUIRC, KSPEC, and other systems that I did not work on personally.
Postscript versions of some of these documents are available via anonymous ftp at ftp://hubble.ifa.hawaii.edu/pub/88inch/manuals/ccd/. Note that the postscript version may not be completely up-to-date.
New Instruments
Introduction and Tutorials
- A Quick Introduction to NeXTStep
- The NeXTStep-based ccd system
- Using the New Autoguider
- Description and Theory of Operation of the Tip-Tilt system
- How to Observe with the Tip-Tilt system
- Tip-Tilt / Autoguider / XY-Stage Usage Notes
Software User's Reference Manuals
- CCD Software: User's Reference Manual
- Otto Tip/Tilt system control
- MiniOtto New autoguider control
- Atlas XY stage control program
- AtlasMos NeXTStep XY stage Dithering/Mosaic program
- Opus and Klint Standalone ccd utilities
- Updated Hexapod Software
- OttostatGuider Monitoring Software
- Laserset Laser guide star information (configuration)
Hardware Reference Manuals
Programmers Reference Manuals
- gdm2 and libgdm2 (-lgdm2) XY Stage
daemon, interface library and standalone programs.
- libdg (-ldg) Datagram
communications library.
- Argus Parameter database.
daemon (rpc.argus) and and access library (-largus)
- libccd (-lccd)CCD/Otto/MiniOtto
UNIX library.
- librccd Access library for
remote control of the ccd NeXT software.
- Prm (Not ready for general release)
