Great!!!
Now I am writing from William Herschel Telescope(WHT) (4.2 meter teescope) control room, in 1 December 2010. 4:00 pm local time
It is great, fascinating.
Today I came up with Ovid as support astronomer.
The impressions are good. As support astronomer first we read the scientific proposal of Today’s night in general to have a clue (It is better to read it before, because the preparation of Telescope is a priority)
Then, we read the technical part of the proposal where we must figure out the instruments, filter or gratings (in the case of spectrograph).
What we must down is to change one filter in one of the wheels of ACAM , imaging camera of WHT.
Where with a great care as a surgeons!!! We exchange it as Ovid sais each one costs 1000Euros,
Then we go up to Telescope Operating Computers,
Check everything related to camera, mirror and even have a spectrum of light from a spectroscopy lamp.
Check that CCD did not saturate and also chose the readout speed of CCDs,
All this done by Instrument control Console PINK window.
The WHT is ready for observers
It is GREAT…Each night in WHT costs 10000 euros, so Good Luck to observers
Shant Baghramian
I go back to check all my note to not miss a detail…
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