ALFOSC staff pages

Pumping and mounting

• General pumping procedure
• Cooling from warm procedure
• Mounting procedure

Optical elements

• ALFOSC fixed setup
• Polarimetric set-up (FAPOL) (calcite plates + retarder plates)
• Polarimetric set-up (WeDoWo)

• Installing filters
• Installing slits and grisms
• Grism wheel balancer
• Installing new calibration lamps
• changing baffle lamps

• Aligning slits and grisms
• Aligning Echelle slits and grisms

• How to use the definition file GUI editor
• Explanation of definition files in use for ALFOSC

• Changing the internal ALFOSC default focus position
• Measuring filter transmission curves

Help Information and Manuals

• Troubleshooting hints, ALFOSC section
  
• MOS mode staff manual (Gzipped Postscript)
  
• Postprocess/Quicklook manual invocation
• Software documentation
• BIAS start
• WFS Measuring Procedure
• How to change the Dewar Interface Board (DIB) in the CCD controller

Monitoring

• WFS instructions
  
• Detector QC instructions
  
• Spectroscopic flux-standard star monitoring instructions
  
• Internal focus monitoring
  
• Grism health monitoring
  
• Slit health monitoring
  
• Zero point monitoring instructions
  
• ALFOSC rotation centre monitoring
  

Drawings

• Drawings
• FASU Drawings

Old documents

• ALFOSC homepage at Copenhagen
  Includes installation report, CCD#6 QE curve, and grism curves.
• Now obsolete: CCD#6 commissioning report.
  and a wash/clean report (180k, gzipped postscript) from Aug 1997.
• Fast CCD photometry (Old CCD controller -2011)
  • Swapping boards
    Windowed fast-photometry mode