Short Summary of how to Observe with LUCIFER

Setting up scripts and getting ready for your run

• Find a guide star for your target
• Setting up scripts for zJHK Imaging
• Setting up scripts for longslit spectroscopy
• Check your scripts with the syntax checker

In the Afternoon:

• Start up the LUCIFER Control Software; Take a test exposure
  
• Take Darks unless you got them in the morning
• Flush the detector if it needs it
• Move your scripts to lucifer and check them
• Take internal flats for imaging

At night:

• Take Sky Flats if it's clear
• Check pointing (Obsolete: Operator will do this at beginning of night)
• Start Wave Front Sensing (Obsolete: Operator will do this at beginning of night)
• Execute a Lucifer Script
  
• Abort a Lucifer Script
• Look at Lucifer Data in Skycat
• Put an object in a long slit
• Align a MOS mask
• Observe a Telluric Standard through a MOS Mask
• Take Arcs and Lamp Flats
  
• Display image differences with qdisp
• Watch the guide camera and WFS on your computer

At Dawn

• Close down when you're done for the night
• Take Darks
• Copy your data before you leave

At Home

• Get your data from the archive