This page contains guidelines for observing with Hector. As with all instrument systems, things will change from run to run, so always check here before you go observing.
Equally, a document such as this will never cover everything exactly or predict all changes at the telescope. Please use this document as a guideline and always check and test things as you go.
Table of Contents
- The First Night
- Default Observing Procedure
- Logs
- Plate Plugging
- Changing the Plate
- Updating and Loading the Hector Allocation File
- Focusing the Spectrographs
- Testing Data Reduction with 2dfdr and Other Hector Software
- Logging observer comments directly to the FITS files
- The Python Package
- Data Quality Checks
- Night-time Calibration Frames (Flats, Arcs, Twilights)
- Focussing the Telescope
- Measuring and Correcting the Global Plate Rotation
- SAMI Plug Plate Rotation
- Spectrophotometric Standards
- Observing Galaxies
- Day-time Calibrations (Biases, Darks and Long-slit Flats)
- CCD Failure Troubleshooting
- At the End of the Night
- At the End of the Run