AGES Observing Checklist for CIMA 3.0 – July 2008

1. Ask the Telescope Operator to select ALFA.
2. The Telescope Operator will start up TOGS (ask for &;squo;TOGS for AGES‘ to avoid confusion with the TOGS setup for ALFALFA).
3. Login to Observer2 as “dtusr” (password is on the monitor)
4. Start CIMA from the right-mouse-button menu. Choose the “next generation” version of CIMA (version 3.0) and the project number "a2048".
5. Select ALFA on the Receiver selection menu' and hit ‘Accept’
6. Open the Command file observing window by clicking ‘Command file observing’ on the CIMA main menu
7. If there is time, or if TOGS has time assigned at the start, load and run the command_galfasrc.cmd file.
8. Load and run the YYMMDD.cmd file, where YYMMDD is the current date.
9. Watch the sky roll by for a few hours. Don't forget to fill in the log form available at http://www.naic.edu/~ages/a2048/logform.html
10. At the end of the run, if there is time, or if TOGS has allocated time, load and run the command_galfacurpos.cmd file
11. Submit the log, and move the files following the guidelines that will appear on the browser.
12. Go to bed!!

Notes and trouble-shooting:

• If a scan is aborted, it is no longer necessary start a new FITS file as CIMA now does this at the start of the observation.
• If the WAPPs get confused, restart them by clicking the “Restart the WAPPs” button in the “CIMA utilities” window, then restart the command file from the beginning and note the event in the AGES log. For AGES, CIMA will calculate the next scan that can be reached in time and will start that scan. For TOGS, it will be necessary for the observer to decide whether there is sufficient time (around 7 minutes) to run the calibration script.
• Togs instructions for AGES

Prepared by R. Minchin and E. Momjian

Last updated: Wednesday, 02-Jul-2008 17:02:18 AST, by R. Minchin