User's Guides

• Beginning of the Night Checklist
• How to start up Clio2
• Using Clio Cookbook
• A quick guide to taking data, once you're on sky and ready to go
• Camera Operation
• Info about the Array and Subarray sizes and Co-adds allowed
• How to run the camera through the GUI
• Observing Scripts
• How to run the camera through scripts
• PSF Stars (Switching stars quickly)
  
• How to take PSF stars, i.e. How to work with the AO operator and TO to reduce overheads in order to quickly acquire a PSF star (only works when the target star is a similar brightness and in a similar part of the sky)
• Spectroscopy

Random note:

Which file is being used to subtract the background?

Check Programs/mirkwood_persist.cfg

It's the one in this line:

dark_fn dark0.fit

Info

• Filters Info -- List of which filters we have in the 2 wheels, also includes filter curves
• Pupil Stops
• Readout Efficiency Tests -- Also includes info about what the various combinations of Nimg, Coadds, and Cubes mean for your data taking.
  

Data Reduction

• Orientation (true North)
• Non-linearity/Saturation: Pixels above 27000 DN are non-linear and must be corrected. Conservatively, pixels above ~45000 should be considered saturated because they can not be corrected to high precision. (See more at Calibration Data)
• Calibration Data - Bad pixel map, astrometric calibration, linearity, flat fields, etc. Also links to raw calibration data such as Calibration Data - 2014A
• Full Frame and Sub Frame Formats - Info about Full Frame, Strip, Stamp, and Substamp Mode

User's Resources

• Magellan Weather Info
• Magellan telescopes weather station: All-inclusive weather info
• Las Campanas weather info (old page)
• Environmental information page
• Precipital Water Vapor at La Silla
• L' and M' photometric standards
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