Quick Introduction
The automatic logging routines for direct CCD imaging, including the
Mosaic, at the 4M and 2M are now in regular use..
The GoldCam spectrometer at the 2M also has auto-logging.
The manual describing use of the routines is available in the orion
FTP KPNO manuals directory or from the Telescope & Instrumentation WEB pages.
- Logging will not take place until the loginit command has been
called. This is best done at the time of obsinit. It can be done
at any time later, and even repeated as desired, but images recorded
prior to its first invocation will not be logged. The current
fix for this is to use the addlog command directly, which can add
any image to the logs after the fact.
- TeX is used to format the logs. Currently users are allowed to use
TeX formatting commands. The TeX chatter is piped to /dev/null
to avoid eyestrain. If an error occurs in TeX, however, the
message and it's request for interactive action will not be visible.
The process will then appear to hang. ^\ will kill the whole thing.
This is simply a matter of pragmatism versus aesthetics and it will
take 5 seconds to modify the formatting scripts to echo the TeX
chatter if people would prefer this as a default option. A more
severe fix would be to trap for \ and thus in effect turn off any
TeX formatting commands input.
- Direct editing of the .lis file can correct errors easily.
There should be a copy of the autolog manual in the control rooms of
the 4m and 2m. Just ask your OA or see the on-line manuals.
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Look here for the on-line Automatic Observing Log Documentation
