Main.PaulGrenz 11 Aug 2020 Sending binary data (BLOBS) via INDI The INDI messaging protocol sends text based messages between clients and drivers as outlined in ...
Main.PaulGrenz 04 Mar 2021 This email will cover the SHARK NIR software architecture for the camera and camera related drivers. It will not include motors, sensor...
Main.LbtiObserver 12 Jun 2019 Changing a PID to change file access permissions The easiest way to change access permissions (or to correct a wrong PID number) is ...
Main.PaulGrenz 30 Sep 2020 Reading configuration files by INDI drivers Each INDI driver has an associated config file and this file has the same name as the driv...
Main.PaulGrenz 21 Sep 2020 Starting, stopping and controlling INDI Drivers As mentioned previously, the "indiserver" manages all the INDI drivers. They should no...
Main.PaulGrenz 25 Sep 2020 Symlinks: Why we use them and what they are good for The indiserver starts, stops, and manages all the INDI drivers, and as such, we c...
Main.PaulGrenz 07 Aug 2020 FITS files What they are and why we use them FITS stands for "Flexible Image Transport System" and is used as the standard image for...
Tips for Wiki Editors This wiki is run on a software called Foswiki, which can occasionally be a bit arcane. Here are a few handy tips and tricks and things to tr...
Main.PaulGrenz 07 Aug 2020 Working with INDI and dealing with its limitations havingto do with streaming of large FITS images was the impetus to make thishappen. ...
Main.PaulGrenz 19 Feb 2021 indi_macie: The MACIE based camera controller This is the INDI driver which controls the MACIE camera. The driver can: * Set biases...
Main.PaulGrenz 02 Mar 2021 indi_notifier: The INDI based event notifier. This is the INDI driver which listens for user specified properties and if certain crite...
Main.PaulGrenz 04 Aug 2020 INDI: The Instrument Neutral Distributed Interface LBTI software is built on the INDI communication protocol as defined by Elwood Down...
Main.EmilyMailhot 18 Oct 2019 List from Katie * Raw data (FITS files) AO diagnostics/telemetry Separate by access: PI data (access per PI) vs. Calibration d...
Main.SteveErtel 22 Apr 2020 LMIRCam AO health check LBTO is putting in significant effort to monitor the health of the AO system. This uses regular observations ...
Main.SteveErtel 21 Apr 2020 LMIRcam astrometric solution If accurate astrometry is to be obtained from LMIRCam images, the detector plate scale and True North ne...
Main.SteveErtel 21 Apr 2020 LMIRcam distortion correction The optical distortion of LMIRCam is significant and needs to be corrected for almost all observations....
Main.SteveErtel 22 Apr 2020 LMIRcam detector linearity As almost every detecor, LMIRCam has a linear range, a non linear range, and a saturation level. These dep...
Main.SteveErtel 22 Apr 2020 LMIRCam nightly darks LMIRCam has in the past shown a variable read noise (pick up noise). Operators should always keep an eye on LMI...
Main.EmilyMailhot 02 Oct 2019 LBTI AO was installed about 10 years ago. Optics Geometrical Geometrical optics deals with the propagation of light in a straight l...
Main.EmilyMailhot 10 Oct 2019 NOT COMPLETE Optics is the study of how light interacts with matter. Lens refraction light interaction inside material Mirror re...
Main.EmilyMailhot 23 Oct 2019 NOT COMPLETE Some LBTI AO System Specifics LBT Telescope Operators are more like telescope monitors for us. We have the ability to ...
Main.EmilyMailhot 24 Oct 2019 Shack Hartmann WFS (not what we have) SH is in pupil plane of the system and detector is in focal plane. Many lenses tiled together...
NOMIC detector recovery This page contains a recipe for recovering NOMIC detectorissues. Unless you are certain of what the problem is and that a specific procedu...
Operating Non SOUL AO NOTE: Instructions on this page apply ONLY to DX! SOUL is a project to upgrade the WFS camera hardware and software. It has been installed ...
Main.EmilyMailhot 22 Oct 2019 This page will eventually have images of each GUI page, ideally with different setting confgurations (start up, operation, issue etc...
LBTI Operations Manual Computer Setup Steward Observatory room N507is the LBTO Remote Observing Room. In this room are 6 LBTO workstations. They are numbered rm5...
Main.EmilyMailhot 18 Oct 2019 2 Tier Document System User and Expert Wiki for dynamic aspects, move these documents after they've been tuned and are useable to ...
Accessing the Controls We almost always run LBTI AO from the remote control room, Steward N507. In this room are 5 LBTO workstations, plus Phil's special table wi...
Main.SteveErtel 27 Oct 2020 Steve's house of curiosities and random notes Oct. 2020: Could not ping lbti nomic, likely related to a couple of power losses. Had ...
NIC Vacuum and Cooling Procedures Current State of System Date Updated System State Updated By 09/16/2019 Grant West The state of the system is only ...