Quick Review

Quick review of setup and observing commands for binocular MODS observing:

Login to obs1, obs2, …, obs5 using your partner account (inaf, lbtb, osurc, az, lbto; note that lower case is needed). If you are not at the summit, open an x2go session onto either robs1 or robs2 using a MATE desktop.

Copy your scripts to robs1,2 or obs1-5. Note that the /home/<partner>/share directory is cross-mounted on all of the machines.
- scp -r myscriptdir/ <partner>@robs1.mountain.lbto.org:~/share/ will copy the entire directory myscriptdir/ to /home/<partner>/share.

Open a terminal window and type mods1 status and mods2 status. Everything but the mods1 and mods2 guis (UI) should be running and owned by mods.

Open 2 terminal windows: in one type mods1 start gui and in the other type mods2 start gui. This command should launch the MODS Control Panel.

In the MODS Control Panel, click on the Setup icon on the left sidebar to display the MODS Instrument Setup screen.

- Click GetDate on the right side of the Instrument Setup Screen to update the UT date in the image file names. Make sure it is the correct UT date for the night. If it is before 5pm (00h UT), you will need to edit the date to be the UT for the coming night. If you have taken data already with that UT date, click refresh and double check that the Blue and Red CCD filenames do not already exist. Once you’ve checked that the starting filenames are what you want, click Apply.

Wake up MODS:
- type modsWake bino (or modsWake 1 or modsWake 2) in a terminal window.
  - This script wakes both MODS (bino), or only MODS1 or MODS2.
  - Waking MODS will power on and enable the IR laser used by the IMCS (Image Motion Compensation System), and clear exposure control settings in preparation for observing.

Open another 2 terminal windows: in one type modsDisp --mods1 and in the other type modsDisp --mods2. This will launch two read-only ds9 windows per MODS to display the most recent Blue and Red images as they appear in /lbt/data/new. Basic header information (the object name, mask and mask position) will be logged in the terminal windows . You should keep the terminal windows visible, as you can copy/paste filenames from them into the modsAlign command line.
- The single command, modsDisp, will launch all four ds9 windows for MODS1Red, MODS1Blue, MODS2Red and MODS2Blue. Some users prefer to keep the logs separate and others prefer the single command that does it all.

Take a set of test images:
- In a terminal window, type modsSimSnap [bino|1|2]or ( modsSieveSnap [bino|1|2]). This is a wrapper script that executes the simSnap.pro (or sieveSnap.pro) script binocularly or on one or the other MODS, similar to modsWake.
  - modsSimSnap will take a set of images through the sieve mask and then another set with no mask in order to keep track of dust on the optics.
  - modsSieveSnap will take only a set of images through the sieve mask.

put MODS into Observing Mode.
- Click the “Observing” button near the top left of the Dashboard and,
- once the calibration unit has finished moving, click Home to move the guide probe to its home position.

Open ancillary tools:
- LBTplot: In a terminal window, type LBTplot to launch this tool.
- GCSGUIs: In another terminal window, type GCSGUI left & and then GCSGUI right & to launch the GCSGUIs

Give the OSA the coordinates of your first target so he can check pointing and collimate.

Observation:
- execBinoMODS mymods1.obs.txt [mymods2.obs.txt]
  - will launch two terminal windows and run execMODS –mods1 mymods1.obs.txt in one and, in the other, execMODS –mods2 mymods1.obs.txt (or mymods2.obs.txt in case two scripts are given on the command line).
- execBinoMODS is used for all spectroscopic observation, imaging and calibration scripts.

Calibrations:
- Must be taken at zenith and with the dome dark (comparison lamp spectra are OK to do when there is light, though).
- If needed, a set of pre-generated calibration scripts is in /lbt/lbto/mods/modsCalibs_OT.

End of Night: put mods to sleep
- modsSleep bino (or modsSleep 1 or modsSleep 2)

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