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tipping procedure

Tipping drives the telescope in elevation at a fixed azimuth to determine atmospheric attenuation. The direction of elevation motion is determined by Start and Stop elevations. Any sign on the Elevation Rate will be ignored. The available keywords for the tipping procedure are shown in Table 9.


Table 9: Keywords available for the tipping procedure. The keywords that are active depends on the selection of the sc.coordinatemode and sc.offsetcoordinatemode keyword values.
RA & DEC HA & DEC Galactic Az. & El. / Encoder User Defined Solar System
proc.repeatnumber
proc.azimuth
proc.startelev
proc.stopelev
proc.realtimedisplay
proc.data




Bob Garwood 2011-07-25