Target acquisition

A new method of keeping the star on the fiber, using telescope offsets was implemented. This now makes it possible to both acquire the object and keep it on the fiber without using autoguiding. In this way, observations of bright FIES targets can be made early in the evening, or late in the morning when autoguiding is not possible. This whole system is now an integral part of the normal user interface, where the system will automatically detect if the autoguider is working or not, and indicate this to the user.



Thomas Augusteijn 2013-05-10