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Introduction
User's Manual for COSMIC
Michael Pahre & Roy Gal
(Caltech)
most recent update J. Hickey 8/21/06
Introduction
Direct Imaging Mode
Reimaged Mode
CCD Characteristics
Starting Up the COSMIC Instrument Control Window
Choosing the Appropriate Directory
Inserting the Appropriate Filter, Aperture, and Grism Names
Mouse Buttons
Filters
Standard Filters
Installing Your Own Filters
Focus
Focusing The CCD
Focusing The Guider
Focusing the Spectrograph
The Aperture Masks
Description
Mounting a Photographic Slitmask Onto a Holder
Installation
The Grism Wheel
Flat-field and Arc Lamps
Orientation of COSMIC
The Offset Guider
Finding a Guide Star
Guiding on a Star
Important Warning About the COSMIC Guider
Observing with Longslits
Determining the Position of the Slit
Placing an Object Onto the Slit
Making Multislit Masks
Introduction
Preparing Your Object List for the Multislit Program
Having the Photographic Masks Made
Observing with Multislit Masks on COSMIC
Preparatory Work in the Afternoon
Procedure for Aligning the Multislit Mask
Direct Imaging with COSMIC at the Palomar 60-inch Telescope
Warnings About COSMIC
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Roy Gal
4/25/1998
Jeff Hickey, minor revisions
8/21/2006
