Subject: From Russet McMillan

From: strauss@astro.princeton.edu

Submitted: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 11:08:05 -0400 (EDT)

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> Subject: new resources
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> Hello all,
>
> Two useful resources are now available on the web: a new
> weather-status page, and a page of tips for best guiding results
> (which will also be part of the help package in the next TUI
> version).
>
> The weather status page is available at
> http://www.apo.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/weather.py , or you can get there
> from the APO home page by clicking on "Current Weather Summary" among
> the 3.5m links.  This page shows the temperature, humidity, wind, and
> dust information that the observing specialists use to make many
> opening/closing decisions.  The data are updated every 30 seconds,
> much faster than the graphs on the Current APO Weather Information
> page.
>
> A new set of tips for using the guiders is available now at
> http://www.apo.nmsu.edu/35m_operations/TUI/Guiding/GuidingUsersGuide.html
> and will be included in the help package for future versions of TUI.
> This is not a comprehensive usage instruction for the guiders
> (available elsewhere in the TUI help), but it has guidance that will
> help experienced users to get better results from the guiders.  In
> particular, DIS users who have fainter targets should check out the
> Slitviewer -- Field Star Guiding section to learn how to make guiding
> adjustments that won't be canceled out by the guiding software!
>
> I hope these resources will proves useful to our observers!
>
> 				   Russet.


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