Startup:

1. If UPS is not on, turn it on. (If the light on the UPS is covered, check for 5V on the meter. If it has power, the UPS is ON.)
2. Turn on the computer (green rocker switch).
3. Rotate the big red ESTOP button at the top of the console CCW to release it. No more than 1/4 turn is required.
4. On the computer:
   • Hit ESC or ENTER when the network window comes up asking for a password.
   • Hit any key IF the telescope control program prompts you to do so (it may not).
   • Hit ALT and TAB simultaneously to bring the telescope program to the foreground. (Do not use the mouse.)
5. As soon as the computer power is on (even before reboot), hit the green reset button at the top of the rack. (If you have not released ESTOP, this will have no effect.)
   • Open the dome. Flip the toggle switch (do not use the pushbuttons).
   • Open the mirror covers--the ones over the primary and the one on the baffle tube.
   • Go into the control room, login to dione and begin your xreport.
6. If you need them , the controls for the running lights are inside the control room door on a dimmer switch (round knob).

Using the Telescope Control System:

• Selecting a catalog or using keyboard input to find and move to objects:
  
  1. Select the Source menu item (hot key S), then pick your catalog or the keyboard entry option.
  2. Yale (YBSC) and NGC200 are in the PCF Catalog. Messier objects are in the User Catalog. Planets, asteroids and comets may be found in the Position menu.
  3. The catalog you selected above will be shown on the main display. Now when you go to the Position menu (hot key P) and select Next (CTRL-N), the catalog you have selected will pop up. You may either enter the number (NOT the name) of the object or you may scroll up and down the catalog using PG UP and PG DN (use the ones at the top right of the keyboard; if you use the ones on the keypad NUM LOCK must be off). Any object highlighted in red is not accessible by the program.
  4. Once you have selected your object and hit ENTER, it will appear on the main display as the NEXT object. Go to the mOve (hot key O) menu, then select Next to move to the object, or bypass the menu and move by hitting ALT-N.
  5. After the telescope has moved to your object, its name and coordinates should appear on the COMMANDED line on the main display.
  6. Center your object in the eyepiece or other instrument.
  7. Zero the telescope by going to the deClare menu (hot key C), then select Init Commanded.
  8. Other objects may then be selected by repeating steps 1-3 (you should only need to zero on the first object).
  9. To abort a move, hit F9. If the telescope was moving when you hit this, it will continue for a moment, stop, then back up to the position it was at when the button was hit. This position then becomes the COMMANDED position. Do not use it for zeroing.
• Changing the track rates:
  The program's default track rate is 15.000 arcsec/sec (for all objects). If you wish to change the rate, go into the Rates menu, then Bias (hot key CTRL-B), then enter your offset values to the 15.000. The rate doesn't become active, however, until you activate the Bias command in the Motion menu (hot key ALT-B). You can get approximate track rates from the program SunPoint on dione.
  
• Using SunPoint on dione: All accounts on dione should be set up to run cosmo. Just type 'cosmo' at any dione prompt. Go here to see a list of point commands and some examples.

Warnings and Problems:

• Always, ALWAYS watch both ends of the telescope while it is moving. Safety of the telescope and instrument is the responsibility of the observer. Make sure the platform, ladders,etc. are clear of the telescope.
• Getting out of the limit:
  Go through the menus Parameters -> Global -> Limits -> Override and enable the override. Hit F10 twice to enable motion again. Move out of the limit area using the handpaddle. Once clear of the limit, go back through the above menu and turn off the override. This is very important! Failure to do this may result in the loss of your telescope privileges.
• If you have hit the panic (S-STOP) button:
  Press F10 twice to get out of panic mode, then hit the green RESET button again to restart the things which were turned off.
  
  

Shutdown:

1. Close instrument dark slides, etc., if any.
2. In the shutDown menu (hot key D), select Auto (hot key ALT-Z). The telescope will move to its normal STOW position and the program will pop up a window asking you to confirm the shutdown. Hit any key except ESC to continue shutdown.
3. Close the dome.
4. Close the mirror covers.
5. At the main Windows screen, hit ALT-F4, then Return to exit Windows.
6. Push the big red ESTOP button at the top of the console until it engages. Make sure that the 50V power supply (upper meter at the bottom of the rack) has turned off or is going down.
7. Turn off the computer.
8. Close the keyboard tray.
9. Fill out your night report (xreport on dione).
10. Turn off the running lights if you were using them.
11. Make sure the air conditioning is on in the control room (particularly in summer).
12. Yale may be operating the telescope remotely at any time, so please be certain that the platform is down, ladders are close to the walls and that any other possible obstructions to the telescope are out of the way.
13. Check that the doors to the dome and control room are both locked and latched before you leave.