Data and Target acquisition

A new target acquisition script has been added that does the whole process of acquiring and centering a star on a fiber. Some further improvements of this script are already planned.

We will also investigate if current telescope pointing is stable enough to directly acquire onto the 20arcsec fiber-head mirrors.

The status of the StanCam filter provided by the TCS and used in the target acquisition will be integrated in the observing system such that the acquisitions scripts can define the proper filter to be used without relying on the set-up not changing.



Thomas Augusteijn 2009-05-14