Procedure for escaping from Primary Mirror Collimation Limits If either of the primary mirrors is moved by active optics so that it encounters one of the travel l...
Communication Loss Decision Tree for the Mountain Assistant OSA What to do in case of communication loss and other emergencies between mountain and the remote OS...
Procedure for Rapidly Rising Dewpoint Making Condensation on Mirrors In rare weather circumstances, it sometimes happens that the dewpoint rises rapidly so that w...
This wiki collects material associated with the LBT DIMM DIMM Manuals * DIMMOperatingSoftware guide explains how to operate the DIMM software. * DIMMTroubl...
FPIA Log Monitor Current version v2.10 This tool displays both LBC Blue and Red FPIA logs in real time with additional information color coded, which aims to re...
Sending a Preset in IRAF Monocular Presets Set or note the current authorizations in IIF. From here everything assumes that the telescope/TCS is up and ready to...
Main.DavidGonzalezHuerta 30 Aug 2008 Resetting El and Az Encoders Take the telescope to elevation 3 and azimuth 177 using the elslewtohold and azslewtohold comma...
Beginning of the Night Lucifer Start Up Procedure Currently, the telescope pointing drifts by tens of arcseconds from day to day. Since the acquisition camera in...
Main.DaveAshby 14 Mar 2013 Mirror Ventilation Operating Guidelines General The purpose of MV is to uniformly control the primary mirror temperature such that th...
Main.DaveAshby 14 Mar 2013 Mirror Ventilation Operating Guidelines General The purpose of MV is to uniformly control the primary mirror temperature such that th...
Mountain Procedures These procedures are generally for handling, mounting and installing things on the telescope. This page is an attempt to collect them all in o...
New Stuff 29 Oct 2008 The PSF Primary Mirror Active Optics and Collimation Control has a new feature. Along with Active Optics, Intrument Offsets. Temperature Cor...
Telescope Operator's Night Log for 24 25 Feb 2009 MST Operator: J. Hill (in Tucson) assisted by J. Little (mtn) Observers: V. Testa, F. Pedichini Instrument Suppo...
Guidelines for using the LASAIR Particle Monitor Telemetry at LBTO Introduction The LASAIR III (310C) particle monitor is mounted in the Aux Control Room on Leve...
Finding Nearest LBT Catalog Stars / Tweaking the Pointing By: Steve Allanson (LBTO)Latest Version: 5.14 This is a GUI version of the terminal based pointnear.pl s...
Checklist for Telescope Systems that need to be Reset after a Power Outage This is the first cut at a list of what needs to be reset to recover from a power outag...
Guidelines for creating effective Problem Reports Here are some helpful hints while you are filling out a problem report (locally IssueTrak). * Time Note the...
Main.JoshuaWilliams 30 Apr 2020 Raise Primary Mirrors / Recovering from Primary Mirror Panic Auth: Josh Williams v1.0 April 29th, 2020 *You’ll first want to bri...
Restarting IRS on the IRS Server Login to the irs server ssh telescope@irs then type sudo systemctl stop lbto irs sudo systemctl start lbto irs This should be do...
Main.DavidGonzalezHuerta 11 Sep 2008 MCSPU Tom Sargent MCSPU/Jet Dan Cox PMC Chris Biddick ECS/PCS Michelle de la Pena (The One and Only) MCS Joe Krauss...
TMS Notes (Telescope Metrology System) To check the TMS laser state From: Andrew Rakich Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2017 10:18:46 AM To: telescopework #64;lbto.o...
Using The Time To Limits Script Note that a more improved version is now incorporated in the Night Report tool: Time to limits values displayed on the Log tab, an...
Using MAT the Mount Alignment Telescopes MAT was removed from the Telescope in Oct 2015, and replaced by LAT These instructions are obsolete. The MAT gets us...
Weather Guidelines for Opening/Closing the LBT Enclosure A Critical Note about Weather Closing and the Authority to Close Please be aware that the below are GUID...