On-fiber guiding

The ``on-fiber'' guiding system is now in the final stages of testing. The system automatically does the whole process from the moment a star is imaged on the fiber head in movie mode, until it is properly centered on the fiber, and kept there. Various improvements were made to optimise the system. It was noted that new users still find the system complicated to use, and will have to be made more intuitive and easy to use before the full system is released for general use.

The offsets calculated by the automatic on-fiber guiding system is now also included in graphical form in the TCSDisplay of the observing system.

A new ``handset'' used to centered a star manually on the fiber has been developed for use with the system for on-fiber guiding. It now has the ability to turn the automatic on-fiber guiding system on or off, as well as having dynamic knowledge of the current state of this system.



Thomas Augusteijn 2014-08-27