HET Operations Manual

The purpose of doing afternoon Operations Engineering is to insure that the telescope is in the correct state for conducting nighttime observations. The essential ideas are to:

• Check early on the dome air conditioning to make sure that it is set properly for the anticipated sunset temperature.
• Bring up systems needed for nighttime operations and, check that they are running correctly.
• Recover from any issues found during Operations Engineering and recover from them before science begins.
• Record all issues accurately in bugzilla and in the OPS comment sections.
  

This document is the expanded form of the "OPs Checklist".

Contents

1. Getting Started
2. Exterior Inspection, Start Air
3. Interior Inspection
4. Setup Desktop and System Initialization
5. TCS Check Out and Trajectories
6. Finishing Up

Appendices
a.) Acronym List
b.) Terminology
c.) Video Channels
d.) Weather Closing Criteria
e.) Computers
f.) Audio information