TAO
Tools for Automated Observing
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Introduction
  System requirements
 
Getting Started
  Installation
  Modeling slew times
  Measuring camera
  download times
  Specifying filter
  names and numbers
  Modeling the local
  horizon
  Creating user profiles
  Initializing target
  databases
  Customizing the
  scheduler
 
Daily Operation
  Starting observatory
  control software
  Updating target
  databases
  Generating a list of
  potential targets
  Preparing a list of
  observation requests
  Running the
  scheduler
  Starting scheduled
  observations
 
Image Acquisition with
the MU Script
  Customizing the
  script
  Starting MU
  Sequence of events
  during an observing
  run using MU
 
Timing Refinement
  Collecting timing
  data
  Analyzing timing
  data
  Adjusting the
  empirical timing
  correction
 
Other Tools
  Slew time
  measurement script
  Minor Planet Checker
  query script
  Regression program
 
Etc.
  Software updates
  License agreement
  Contact the author
Getting started



Step 4: Specifying filter names and numbers

If you use an automated filter wheel, you need to specify the filter names and numbers (that is, their positions in the filter wheel) in a separate text file. Each line of this text file must contain a filter number followed by the filter's name, as in the example below:

3 U
5 B
6 V
8 R
9 I
10 clear

These filter specification files are usually saved to directory TAO\schedule. The above sample file (TAO\schedule\filters.txt) may be used as a template for creating your own filter specification files. If you use more than one telescope, each one may have its own filter specification file.

Support for automated filter wheels is currently only available if the telescope is controlled by ACP using the MU image acquisition script.

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