Kyoto Seimei User manual

Seimei Telescope
User’s Manual
Umut BURGAZ
[e-mail]
Kyoto University
10/2019

Revision Sheet
Release No.
Date
Revision Description
Rev. 0
15/06/2019
Creation of Template & First Draft
Rev. 1
04/10/2019
Second Draft

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Seimei Telescope User’s Manual
In this manual I explain the Seimei Telescope usage procedure step-by-step.
Procedure starts with manually setting-up the telescope mechanisms from the 3rd floor
of the building. Process in this manual should NOT be used blindly without supervision
by any means!
oTelescope Setup
1-) On the 3rdfloor of the building, just acrossthe entrance hall, check themechanism.
Correct shape is an “L” shape. If the mechanism is like this “_ı”, it must be switched to
the “L” shape.
You can easly understand if the position is correct by looking at the stickers at the
image below (they must be on same/close vertical line)

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2-) There should be 15cm distance between the Kanji Seal and ZeroPoint as shown
below. From the stickers on the below image, you can understand if the position is
correct or not.
3-) The two arrows, the one on bottom showing the Home position, shown below must
be close to each other.

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4-) On the control panels, power must be switch on as shown below. There are 3
units(2 bottom, 1 top). When switching on, the procedure should start from bottom-
right -> bottom-left -> top-left. When switching off, top-left panel is accessed from
computer so, we only need to close bottom panels manually.
5-) If the telescope is on, on the left-side computer we will have the screen below.

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6-) On the middle computer, type “./telescopeM5 ” to start the screen shown below
where the user and location is : develop@localhost
7-) Take the controller shown below and push “All” -> “Down” to close the curtains.
There is an automatic panel to move the curtains on the Main computer as well.

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8-) Go down to the 1st floor. Type cont380 on the left-side computer.
9-) Upon typing cont380, a new screen will appear. You will be asked to enter the
proposal ID. Here the “K” letter is for Kyoto. Choose the Proposal ID and type the
observers name and click “Go ahead”.

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10-) Zero Point must be set for all (position of telescope and mirrors). The process is
now automatic. Under the Dome control, click Setup and choose the zeropoint searchs
and click “Start”.

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11-) On the top middle screen, we have the Feedback. Simply click “Start” under the
Feedback Control section. As long as we don’t see any errors on the right side of the
screen, everything is okay. Difference around 500 is okay.
17-) On the second bottom left screen, we need to open the KOOLS software. For that
we need to type “ ./KOOLS_obs_GUI.py”. we use the terminal with
“messia@kools2017” name. NOT “seimei@SeimeiConsole1”.

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oCalibration Images
18-) Upon entering the script, a new screen will appear. Here we first click “Start” on
top of the screen and then “Initialize all motors”.