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1. 00 00 00 00 Change Axis Offsets Azimuth Zenith Distance Offset Focus Offset gt Derotator Nasmyth 1 Offset gt Derotator Nasmyth 2 Offset gt Dome Azimuth Offset The Change Axis Offsets section is able to present two panel types to input new offsets Main Axes section controls two axes the first main axis is e g Azimuth or Right Ascension and the second main axis is e g Zenith Distance or Declination To change the axis offsets manually a 3 by 3 button grid is provided where the first main axis is linked to the horizontal buttons and the second axis to the vertical ones Diagonally arranged buttons 28 GUI FW AsTelOS Manual 579 4 9 Pointing Model Control at the edges of the 3 by 3 grid change both axes The middle button resets both offsets back to zero To scan the area around the current position the offsets can be changed automatically in a spiral pattern With the provided buttons the spiral can be e stopped and return to the previous offsets e stopped without changing the current offsets e rewind with decreasing distance to the center if the spiral was already executing e paused clicking again will proceed with spiraling e started with increasing distance to the center The minimal interval between two spiral steps can be changed with the step time field The distance between two consecutive spiral rounds can be changed using the step width controls e g matching the field
2. customdb database When cleaning up this cached program data the database file must be preserved See the section 7 4 on page 64 where these files can be found GUI FW AsTelO0S Manual 579 41 4 Views 4 11 Telescope Target Options The Telescope Target Options view provides access to secondary target options These help the TSI service to calculate an appropriate solution for the transmitted targets ii Telescope Target Options 23 Bl Target Options Enter Data Name default gt Basic Setup gt Local Setup gt Environment Setup Focus Setup gt Derotator Setup gt Filter Setup gt Dome Setup Handle Datasets Name OU EEEENENEBESEENERgINENNENNENNMNMNMAZNRIiasa Emm Manage Dataset Clone Item New Item Remove Item There are two groups shown Enter Data offers several sections to alter the currently selected data set Basic Setup contains entries describing how the telescope should slew to its target Op timization where it should track Tracking Orientation of the ZD Axis only useful if zenith distance axis can track on both sides of the zenith what should be considered at the calculation Use Refraction Correction and how long it should be able to track before reaching any limit Minimal Tracking Time 8 Use Refraction Correction Tracking Orientation of the ZD Axis Automatic Pointing Y Optimisation Maximise Tracking Time v Minimal Tracking Time s 30
3. Additionally the meta data of every image is stored as property files with the same name but txt as extension Target Centering This job uses main telescope axis offset to position a target in the center of the image Target Centering v v Settings for the automatic target centering job x coordinate of center 0 0 1 0 0 5 y coordinate of center 0 0 1 0 0 5 Frames to guess mean position 5 Execute spiral if target could not be found Intial FOV 0 0833333333333 Maximum spiral distance 0 5 Settings x coordinate of target The relative coordinate where the image center on the x axis is situated Note Relative coordinates means that 0 0 is the left border and 1 0 right one y coordinate of target The relative coordinate where the image center on the y axis is situated Note Relative coordinates means that 0 0 is the top border and 1 0 bottom Frames to guess mean position The number of frames that are used to guess a mean position and the deviation from it Execute spiral if target could not be found If no target was found an spiral with the offsets could be executed to search for a target nearby Note T he following options are not available if this check box is disabled Initial FOV The initial FOV is used to set the closeness of the spiral rounds Note Entering a too large value will result in gaps between the spiral round whereas at too small value will only result in longer execution
4. and reveals another hyperlink label to access current MPC data on linett Do you want to fill the Element Data by entering a line with MPC Data Object Name Type of the Orbital Elements Elliptic v Equinox of the Coefficients julian year 01 01 2000 Time of passage through Perihelion julian year 01 01 1970 Inclination 00 00 00 00 Argument of Perihelion 00 00 00 00 Longitude of Ascending Node 00 00 00 00 Semimajor Axis AU 0 0000 Eccentricity 0 0000 Perihelion Distance AU 0 0000 Iwo Line Elements contains input fields to enter TLE data of one satellite w Two Line Elements TEE Span to next Pass hour 12 Minimal Rise Altitude 10 Pass Tracking Mode Track Pass Trajectory w Minimal Slew Altitude 5 Selected Pass none selected 0 available CTHEREFFF The TLE input field takes the Two Line Elements with an optional object name It can be checked for passes with an minimal altitude in the next hours as specified By clicking the Pick a Pass button a selection dialog is show to choose between the found passes Target Editing Two Line Elements Select a Pass from the List Available Result Rise Time Duration Min Range Max Altitude 04 10 2010 20 33 13 00h 08m 34 00s 2156 33 18 48 42 25 04 10 2010 22 17 34 00h 12m 30 00s 980 83 86 54 20 96 05 10 2010 00 04 49 00h 07m 00 00s i 2329 50 i 198 42 25 39 Sorting the result list for
5. or M as prefix followed by a white space and an index number can be used to denote an abitrary char and for any length of arbitrary chars 22 Ts a fixed value for all entries to register the custom B2000 0 equinox 23 http cdsarc u strasbg fr cgi bin qcat 1 259 24 The catalog specific name is e g TYC 5949 277 1 for Sirius can be used to denote an abitrary char and for any length of arbitrary chars 58 GUI_FW AsTel0S Manual 579 6 6 Searching within Catalogs The catalog is converted from its raw notation to a more powerful database representation at the very first start Because of the significant size of the catalog and the number of entries this process takes some minutes The progress made so far can be watched in the Radar view section 4 2 maximize it to have an even better look Note Starting AsTelOS the next time after the conversion was done the database is compacted this takes also a couple of minutes In this time span the database isn t available 6 6 7 Heavens Above online catalog Available data fields to search for are e Object Name 9 e Altitude e Visual Magnitude e Search Time The answer contains one entry for every pass Data Fields that are delivered e Rise Time Set Time Pass Time e Altitude Range Visual Magnitude Heavens A bove service is used to acquire the TLE of satellites passing in the questioned time span The catalo
6. see section 4 2 on page 23 section 4 3 on page 24 and section 4 4 on page 24 to visualize the current telescope pointing Remaining space is used for the specific purpose of the particular perspective On the left views are located for basic interaction and in the middle for more advanced issues 5 1 Handling Perspectives To open a perspective click on the left button within the perspective bar see image in section 1 on page 5 a Fille Admin Window Help E ES Object Tracking amp Open Perspective The Open perspective dialog is opened and shows the available perspectives GUI_FW AsTel0S Manual 579 AT 5 Perspectives xj B Open Perspective Engineering FH Object Tracking default FE Pointing Model B Resource Clients Cancel Choose the desired perspective from the list and open it by clicking OK Open perspectives are shown as markers within the perspective bar Switching over to another perspective is now possible just by clicking onto its marker A Oogmmmm File Admin Window Help ES E Engineering Object Tracking 7 Telescope Cabinet 23 Each of these markers provide a context menu right click their perspective marker where the perspective can be e g closed or saved under another name Note The arrangement of the opened views as well as the opened perspectives are saved when closing the program 5 2 Engineering The Engineering perspective consi
7. 00 Zenith Distance 03 00 00 00 Change Axis Offsets Azimuth Zenith Distance Offset Change Position a L P ae Ax gt d 4 Execute Spiral Range to Center 00 00 00 00 Progress for Range 0 00 i4 eJ 4 ii gt Step Time 500 ms Step Width small 00 00 00 10 O large 02 30 00 00 Next gt Cancel Finish If all settings are entered the wizard selects the first target To prevent selecting targets that are far apart the ideal pointing the search is done with increasing search distance as configured in the wizard page before The slewing progress to the selected target is displayed with this wizard page 1 AsTelOS GUI test Targetting O Slewing to Target Target Name TYC 3927 1603 1 Target Magnitude 5 67 188 43 33 82 Target Distance Next gt Cancel Finish When the target is reached and the telescope is tracking it the next page is shown It depends on the choosen centering mode which panel is shown here If a target could not be found or non ambigously identified on the next wizard page a check box can be selected stating Object could not be found The wizard proceeds with the next target ignoring this one Finally when cancelling or finishing the wizard a last result page is show 36 GUI FW AsTelOS Manual 579 4 10 Telescope Target Editing T AsTelOS GUI test Wizard Finished Final State of Execution Execu
8. 109 04 45 86 Altitude 19 01 49 72 Slewing Distance AE E Slewing Time VAR Tracking Time 480 0 s Tracking Limits Tube Orientation Reverse Pointing Derotator Offset 00 00 00 00 Focus Offset 00 00 00 00 or displays errors that prevented the execution Last Check Report Reported Error below the horizon Note The number and type of presented report fields may vary with the chosen position and object type 4 10 1 Extension Custom Catalog The Telescope Target Editing view can be customized by other plug ins This is done by the custom catalog plug in with icons in the header of each target type section Enter Data ds gt Instrumental Position e Horizontal Position 3 Equatorial Position 5 Lo i Elements Object 45 Co gt Two Line Elements m rn Ca ug Solar System Object E 3 Catalog Object 3 g The two icons are used to 1 Add the current values of the related target section to the custom catalog The target must have a custom name if a field for this is available If an object with the same name already exists in the custom catalog a warning is generated and the object has to be removed from the catalog before the current one can be added 2 Open the Custom Catalog view and deal with the entries that were added before See section 4 12 on page 45 for more details about this view Note The data of this catalog are stored within the
9. 19 0 00 0 00 486 83 0 01 0 01 9 TYC 2980 2184 1 i 276 313 59701 4 67 275 00 269 29 4896 51 0 00 0 01 2198 33 0 01 0 02 10 TYC 4376 2052 1 338734 65 404 70 60 335 00 2190 04 2285 79 0 00 0 01 1113 63 0 01 0 02 11 TYC 4959 1009 10Tycho 2 115 655 19 618 5625 115 00 716 39 577 31 0 02 0 02 929 43 0 00 0 02 12 TYC 2492 1307 1 Tycho 2 198 536 72 848 58 47 195 00 346245 2580 49 0 02 0 02 759 16 0 00 0 02 13 TYC 3819 4 1 Tycho 2 44 390 78 288 20217 40 00 9576 77 37449 0 02 0 02 2633 48 0 00 0 02 14 TYC 2985 670 1 Tycho 2 241 456 77 831 26 62 240 00 1314 97 2542 24 0 02 0 02 1057 80 0 00 0 02 15 TYC 6639 51 10 Tycho 2 165217 15018 2577 16500 0 96 262 06 0 02 0 02 891 02 0 00 0 02 4 i i LI Name optional Add New Remove Selected Remove All File Name Server Load Measurements Save Measurements Calculate new Model Save calculated Model Tools Add more Measurements The two groups separate the measurements from the coefficients calculated with the help of the measurements The groups are Current Pointing Model Values with the sections coefficients are given in degree Classic Coefficients with 9 correction terms This model is meant to be used for smaller telescopes or for a first rough model AOFF azimuth offset Z
10. 7 1 Available processing stages To demonstrate the effect of the different stages this example image is processed through each of them Centroid Search To search for the brightest spot in the image this stage works in two part First identifying the brightest area of the image and second searching for the mean position of the spot On the image debug symbols are drawn ay The debug symbols are Lock Dot in the upper left corner of the image This is shown if the accumulated brightness over the whole size of the detected spot is larger than the set threshold see the preferences in section 3 1 in regard to the variability of the background Lock Circle around the detected spot is also shown if the spot exeeds the set threshold Cross Hair showing the detected position of the detected spot even if the threshold criteria was not reached Significance number is always printed to the upper right of the detected spot Tiles are shown with the brightest and the second brightest area in the image Custom 3x3 Filter The custom 3x3 filter provides a customizable 3x3 matrix that can be applied to the image The default parameters are set to realize a gaussian filter 60 GUI FW AsTelOS Manual 579 6 7 Insights into the camera processing pipeline Dark Frame To subtract the static influence e g of hot pixels thermal or read out noise a dark image can be subtracted with this processing stage T
11. Classic Coefficients Z3 cl Pointing Model Control Current Pointing Model Values Active Calculation Type Extended Model Pointing Model Quality 00 36 36 51 Classic Coefficients AOFF 0 82665 ZOFF 0 30116 DOFF 0 00001 COFF 0 00001 AN 0 09559 AE 0 17489 NPAE 0 43182 BNP 0 78491 Uz 0 04001 gt Extended Coefficients Manage current Measurements Name Azimuth Altitude Derotator Dome Az Offset Alt Offset Derot Offset Dome Offsel Main Error Derot Error Dome Error O TYC 3105 02070 1 i 153 879 79 317 101 27 150 00 95 90 142 65 0 00 0 00 165 38 0 01 0 01 1 TYC 1472 01436 1 260 077 34282 9 35 26000 203 51 28613 0 00 0 00 56728 0 01 0 01 2 TYC 3845 01190 1 310790 43 163 20 200 310 00 47 58 357 87 0 00 0 00 1477 94 0 01 0 01 3 TYC 3358 03141 1 i 10 252 5 559 1536 10 000 22694 78 52 0 00 0 00 2174 88 0 01 0 01 4 TYC 1735 03180 1 711259 22764 68 57 70 00 298 68 70 91 0 00 0 00 1958 01 0 01 0 01 5 TYC 6803 02158 1 204 524 11 246 6 627 20000 26281 178 52 0 00 0 00 1207 89 0 01 0 01 6 TYC 1058 03399 1 146233 45 861 6772 145 00 298 68 0 83 0 00 o oo 902 71 0 01 0 01 TYC 4606 03584 1 18 752 49 281 135 42 15 00 93 26 216 06 0 00 0 00 1360 69 0 01 0 01 8 TYC 3574 03347 1 B4 677 66278 135 84 80 00 57 39 0
12. Measurements 10 Main Movement as generated Luminance Constraint Weakest mag 6 Brightest mag 2 Altitude Constraint Lowest Altitude 0 Highest Altitude 90 Target Constraints Search Distance 3 Distance Zones 3 Used Object Catalog Used Target Options Back Cancel Finish Settings for the GRID mode Number of Measurements the total number of measurements added with this wizard run Main Movement set the sorting of the generated ideal measurement positions Possible values are as generated unordered as generated Measurements are ordered within a spiral around azimuth and increasing altitude altitude sorts the measurement positions by altitude causing the telescope to move large distances in azimuth azimuth sorts the measurement positions by azimuth causing the telescope to move large distances in altitude Luminance Constraint set the limits for the weakest and brightest objects that should be selected as a measurement position GUI FW AsTelOS Manual 579 33 4 Views Altitude Constraint set the limits for the lowest and highest measurement positions Note These limits might be slightly left when searching for a suitable target near the ideal measurement position Target Constraint gives limits when searching for a suitable measurement targets Search Distance maximal distance of a target around the calculated measurement position
13. Pointing Model Values SN Axis Name Offset v Classic Coefficients sciatis zr UE AOFF 0 00643 ZOFF 0 01589 Zenith Distance i 00 02 35 45 DOFF 0 00000 COFF 0 00000 BIL ejes uus AN 0 00696 AE 0 01064 Derotator Nasmyth 1 i 00 00 00 00 NPAE 0 02002 BNP 0 01560 d F Derotator Nasmyth 2 i 00 00 00 00 TF 0 02470 Dome Azimuth i 00 00 00 00 gt Extended Coefficients Change Axis Offsets v Azimuth Zenith Distance Offset Manage current Measurements Change Position Name ES pss ZD ZD Offse Derotator Bep Dome Dome Off Object 1 1177 41 41 31 126 10 44 36 36 05 1 227 73 46 56 36 04 0 00 i175 00 00 00 0 00 S i di Object 2 80 0741 73 185 17 64 33 14 21 8 56 21 32 16 90 0 00 275 00 00 00 0 00 Qi Axes Positions 3 oF RE Object 2 i 225 04 15 07 67 03 83 09 27 97 349 30 37 55 51 20 0 00 130 00 00 00 0 00 ins AAA mante Object 3 131 03 25 44 45 68 41 46 55 86 1327 95 16 32 42 26 0 00 225 00 00 00 0 00 Axes Positions Object 4 180 32 55 46 82 41 44 35 21 55 199 86 45 46 49 80 175 00 00 00 0 00 L 1 sh i i i i i i i Instrumental Object 5 29 23 46 96 24 33 82 13 00 72 193 13 18 59 08 61 10 00 330 00 00 00 0 00 Execute Spiral Object 6 119 54 10 46 35 87 11 37 34 85 155 45 129 03 36 62 0 00 115 00 0
14. This task only functions properly if a recognized target is within the camera frame and the centroid processing stage is added to the image processing pipeline Estimate Position of Derotator Axis Start the camera task to search for the derotator axis in the camera frame section Note This task only functions properly if a recognized target is within the camera frame and the centroid processing stage is added to the image processing pipeline Search and Center Target Start the camera task for search execute spiral if enabled and center a target section Note This task only functions properly if a recognized target is within the camera frame and the centroid processing stage is added to the image processing pipeline 4 14 Progress The Progress view lists all running or queued jobs These are internal helper objects that encapsulates an activity independent from others The View can be opened by double clicking on the progress indicator Progress View 2 gt dg Tracking Request Sent Slewing Jobs are triggered by user interaction with AsTelOS GUI or from the program itself and may also be shown with a dialog notifying the current operation e g f Tracking Request Sent Slewing Always run in background Note Even if jobs seems to be stoppable by showing the stop button they might not support this For job dialogs that support cancellation this is explicitly declared 4 15 Error Log
15. also changeable 2 3 About The About AsTelOS GUP dialog provides the legal information about the telescope manufacturing company and the software developing company About AsTelOS GUI test AS TELOS GUI ASTELCO SYSTEMS GMBH FRAUNHOFERSTR 14 82152 MARTINSRIED ASTEKO TAU TEC GMBH A tec VOR DEM KREUZBERG 17 72070 T BINGEN Installation Details 2 4 Exit If AsTelOS GUI should be shut down a dialog is shown to confirm that the user really intends to do so AsTelOS GUI simulator i 2 Are you sure you want to close this application This additional step prevents an unintended interruption of operation with AsTelOS GUI GUI_FW AsTel0S Manual 579 9 3 Preferences 3 Preferences The Preferences dialog provides a generic access to change settings made available by different AsTelOS GUI parts Sub pages can be selected within the tree presented in the left section of the dialog The following subsections that are ordered according to the settings tree will describe these settings pages in more detail Given settings can be restored to their former value by clicking the Restore Defaults buttons or Cancel OK and Apply save them with resp without closing the preferences dialog Y Preferences E xX type filter text Camera FIA OR General settings ofthe camera processing pipeline P Catalogs Image source gt General Directory stellarium
16. always complain about wrong formatted input feel free to try out formattings 6 3 Power Up Down the Telescope Changing the power state of the telescope is explained with using the Engineering perspective see section 5 2 on page 48 and section 5 1 on page 47 how to open a perspective 1 2 8 9 Open the Engineering perspective The Telescope Cabinet view provides within the section Telescope Power the buttons On and Off which consequently powers the telescope on and off Click the On button Wait until the State textfield above the buttons indicates on Note While powering up the axes states can be watched changing within the Axes Status view After the power state switched to on and no errors occurred see section 7 1 on page 63 the telescope is fully operational Maybe it is necessary to open the dome telescope covers or toggle some switches this can be done within the Auxiliary Parts section of the Axes Status view The TSI may do so automatically if configured do your work with the telescope Before powering down close the dome cover or toggle switches if necessary The T SI may do so automatically if configured Click the Off button within the Telescope Cabinet view Wait until the State signals off Note Powering down includes the slewing of the axes to their home positions Powering up requires occasionally re
17. an entry in ascending descending order can be acquired by clicking the according head elements of the table The Rise Time and Set Time refer to the Minimal Rise Altitude whereas the Duration refers to the whole trajectory span If the satellite didn t rise or set in the checked span of time the corresponding table field is empty 12 Minor Planet Center 13 http www cfa harvard edu iau info CometOrbitFormat html 14 http www cfa harvard edu iau Ephemerides Comets Soft00Cmt txt 38 GUI FW AsTelOS Manual 579 4 10 Telescope Target Editing Selecting an entry within the list shows the specific trajectory within the Radar view see section 4 2 The position the telescope is slewing to is marked by a cross This initial position can be influenced by changing the value of the Minimal Slew Altitude input field It is the first calculated pass position where the satellite reaches the given altitude Radar X 5 Radar m The trajectory path is drawn as a solid line when the satellite is expected to be sunlit otherwise a dotted line is drawn How the trajectory is executed can be selected with the Pass Tracking Mode combo box When using Track Pass Trajectory the telescope will execute the calculated trajectory But using Irack Position the telescope tracks the horizontal position marked by the cross Solar System Object contains predefined calculation routines for the planets with
18. be centered This can be done with different modes explained here AUTOMATIC mode To use this mode an IP Cam providing an MJPEG Stream must be mounted to the selected telescope port and configured properly in AsTelOS see section 3 1 3 on page 11 The progress and success of the centering can be checked in the Camera view To omit the ability to verify the centering result manually the Pointing Measurement creation doesn t wait for user checkbox can be selected Guessing of the final result state is also done by the automatic process E AsTelOS GUI test gl Automatic Centering Finished center job Starting center job Starting spiral Rewinding spiral Resuming spiral Finished spiral SUCCESS Orientation found rough centering axis1 Azimuth Reversing offset Orientation found rough centering axis2 Altitude Current Position is close enough to the target Finished center job lt Back Cancel Fish MANUAL mode This mode relates to the Axis Offsets view which is explained in section 4 8 on page 28 To center the target it has to be centered on a custom camera or with an eye piece and setting the offsets with the provided inputs GUI_FW AsTel0S Manual 579 30 4 Views Lj AsTelOS GUI test Center the Target Proceed after centering is done or if object is not visible Center the Target Current Axis Offsets Axis Name Offset Azimuth 02 00 00
19. condition not yet disabling the telescope ERROR red serious condition disabling important parts of the telescope system PANIC red severe condition blocking the whole telescope no hardware red no telescope hardware found no license red no valid TSI license data found UNKNOWN red status could not be determined Two buttons are available 8 GUI FW AsTelOS Manual 579 23 About Stop Telescope Clicking this button stops the telescope quickly in an ordered manner However this function does not replace the hardware emergency stop buttons on the telescope as it should not be relied on in critical or dangerous situations Log Report A dialog is shown if the log report button is clicked on Create Log Snapshot 2009 12 16 15 33 22 168 Length of recorded History 3 min v Description What was done What happened What was expected instead nome AsTelOS GUI simulator 2009 12 16 15 33 22 168 zip Change With this dialog a just experienced problem error or crash can be easily reported For that purpose a description of the last actions and the occurred problem can be entered see section 7 1 on page 63 as well as a time span for the included snapshot from the log files The time span is relative to the time the dialog was opened so the dialog can be filled in without hurry The created snapshot file can be found under the displayed path which is
20. especially dangerous for the Remove All button that s why Beware your clicks GUI FW AsTelOS Manual 579 31 4 Views File Name Server is for the file name on the connected TSI server where the current measurements are saved to or loaded from Measurements loaded from a file are appended to the shown list Note Available measurements that are not saved will be lost if the TSI server is shut down Saving or loading the available measurements requires a file name A message box will occur if none has been entered yet f Pointing Model Contr Enter a filename Calculate new Model processes the listed measurements within the table to a pointing model When new pointing model coefficients have been calculated a message box is shown that tells the overall fit error of the calculation used before and the current one B Pointing Model Control Q Calculating new Pointing Model succeeded Fitting Accurrac y Was Fitting Accurrac yis Note Extending a pointing model section specifies the calculation of a classic or extended model If no section is extended this message box will pop up Pointing Model Control A Model Type has to be choosen the Coefficients are calculated for Do this by expanding a Pointing Model Section Save calculated Model to set the last calculated pointing model as the default one that is loaded in the future Note Apply axes offsets with the Axes O
21. hours as described in section 6 2 Declination F the DEC position in degrees as described in section 6 2 RA DEC Search Range F the search distance for objects to a defined RA DEC or RA amp DEC position in degrees as described in section 6 2 RA Proper Motion R the proper motion in right ascension in milliarcseconds per year DEC Proper Motion R the proper motion in declination in milliarcseconds per year Equinox R the equinox as the zero point of the proper motion in years Object Diameter R the diameter of the object in arcseconds Unspecified Magnitude R the brightness of the object for an undefined spectral sensitiveness in magnitudes Visual Magnitude R the brightness of the object for the visual spectral band in magnitudes Blue Magnitude R the brightness of the object for the blue spectral band in magnitudes BV Color R the color as the difference between the visual and the blue magnitude in magnitudes GUI FW AsTelOS Manual 579 57 6 How To 6 6 4 Custom Catalog The catalog contains objects added by the user and provides a generic and slim access to them The following field are supported e Object Name e Object Type 6 6 5 NGC IC Catalog The catalog objects support the following data fields e Object Name e Right Ascension Declination RA DEC Search Range Equinox e Object Diameter Unspecified Magnitude Som
22. line Connection disconnected Telescope UNKNOWN Errors UNKNOWN iD Stop Telescope E Log Report The specific messages within the text fields are colored to allow a quick assessment of their severity green proper function no user intervention needed yellow problem detected user intervention advisable if the current state is not intended red severe problem detected user intervention is necessary The status messages can be Connection status established green TPL connection to the TSI service is up and running disconnected yellow no connection is detected Telescope status tracking green telescope is following the trajectory precisely only if powered up see 6 3 on page 54 about how to do that slewing yellow telescope is in motion only if powered up stopped yellow telescope is not in motion only if powered up transiting yellow powering up down in progress shut down yellow telescope is powered off blocking error red error that blocks the operation emergency off red emergency off button pressed local mode red no remote operations allowed UNKNOWN red status could not be determined Error status none green operational INFO yellow informative condition not affecting the operation WARNING yellow critical
23. prohibit following the guide above a more generic approach to this is described below Note the current date time timezone of the time Describe what was done 1 2 3 Describe what happened 4 Describe what was expected 5 Optional Check if the suspicious behavior can be reproduced Note date time and outcome for each trial 6 Optional If the behavior can be reproduced Is it present if AsTelOS GUI is restarted The TSI service The telescope control cabinet 7 Optional Check within the Error Log view if there were events reported that happened at the time of the failure see section 4 15 on page 46 8 Contact the manufacturer 7 4 Cache File Structure In addition to section 7 3 on the previous page the file structure of the program cache is explained as the wish to explore it might arise The base directory is located within the home directory of the user e g observer that uses the program for example home observer tau tec AsTelOS GUI Two sub directories are used to mark persistent configurations config and restorable data files data 1 4 1 Configuration Directory Files stored at this location are used to save preferences that belong to the current user They might be backed up to restore all settings made in AsTelOS GUI Current configuration data located here 64 GUI FW AsTelOS Manual 579 7 4 Cache File Structure metadata the directory contains
24. see section 4 15 on page 46 that lists internally logged error events As these errors often do not affect the user http www eclipse org Telescope Protocol Language Telescope Software Interface GUI_FW AsTel0S Manual 579 1 Terminology interaction this menu entry is also for administrative purposes unless otherwise noted See to the explanation of the workbench for what a view is e Window Reset Perspective Reset the perspective layout and the opened views to the last saved state or if it was not saved before to the default state Save Perspective Save the current layout and the opened views overwriting the last saved or default state of this perspective Be careful in doing so Close Perspective Close the currently shown perspective Any changes made in the layout will be lost Preferences Open the preferences dialog from where different program settings can be changed see section 3 on page 10 e Help About Open the About dialog with copyright information of the manufacturer see section 2 3 on page 9 cool bar contains draggable items perspective bar Shows the already opened perspectives and provides access to a dialog from where others can be opened see also section 5 1 on page 47 See the explanation of the workbench for what a perspective is workbench is the main interaction area where the user can interact with views perspective A perspecti
25. setting up search for AsTelOS The point of view is changed to look into the same direction as the telescope 3 Selecting a target and pressing Ctrl 1 5 will open a Telescope Target Editing view see section 4 10 on page 37 that contains the coordinates of the selected target Such an automatically created target is missing its specific name but can be tracked right away as described in section 6 5 on page 55 4 Feel free to explore and customize Stellarium 6 2 Efficient Data Input The data presented within AsTelOS GUI is mostly given in one of a few different formats Shortcuts can be used to input data in these formats more quickly degree data e used for azimuth zenith distance declination derotator e AsTelOS GUI formatting example 27 57 26 38 e possible manual input shortcuts 27d 57 26 38 27d 57 43967 27 57 26 38 27 957 hour data e used for right ascension e AsTelOS GUI formatting example 07h 31m 30 91s e possible manual input shortcuts 17 input field for searching is displayed by pressing Ctrl F 18 The specific number depends on the key binding from the configuration made above GUI_FW AsTel0S Manual 579 09 6 How To Th 31m 30 91s Th 31 51517m 07 31 30 91 1 929 millimeter data e used for focus e AsTelOS GUI formatting example 3 78 mm e possible manual input shortcuts 3 78 Note The program will
26. that should be altered click the Change the Dataset button and make the changes Change back to the Telescope Target Editing view b Select the Telescope Target Options with clicking its tab An existing data set can be cloned click Clone Item button and changed or a new one created click New Item and set up from scratch Change back to the Telescope Target Editing view and select the newly created data set Note If a new data set is created it should be equipped with an unique and meaningful name 4 Click the Check Object button to examine possible problems Click the Irack Object button to let the telescope slew to the position and start tracking there If the targeted object is not centered properly the Axes Offsets view can be used to correct a small position deviation Be sure to reset the offsets back to zero after observing the target Note Use this only as a makeshift for imprecise but not better known coordinates as otherwise e g the pointing model may be bad see section 6 4 on the preceding page 6 6 Searching within Catalogs 6 6 1 General Approach for Searching An overview about querying a catalog is provided here It is meant to get an idea on how to use the catalog search explanatory gaps are filled with the details from subsequent sections 1 2 Switch to or open a Telescope Target Editing view see section 4 10 on page 37 Open the catalog secti
27. the middle GUI_FW AsTel0S Manual 579 49 6 How To E Object Tracking 5 Axes Offsets 3 O i Telescope Target Editing 2 ig Telescope Target Options A Radar X gt gi Telescope 3D Em Axes Offsets Target Editing Radar Current Axis Offsets Enter Data p N 7 Axis Name Offset gt Instrumental Position Azimuth 00 00 35 87 gt Horizontal Position Zenith Distance 00 02 35 45 T gt Equatorial Position Focus i 0 0000 mm Derotator Nasmyth 1 00 00 00 00 oo DE T Er m Ww Derotator Nasmyth 2 00 00 00 00 Solar System Object Dome Azimuth 00 00 00 00 Catalog Object Change Axis Offsets Additional Configuration v Azimuth Zenith Distance Offset Choose Configuration Dataset default Y Change the Dataset Change Position Execute Entered Data Manage Tracking Check Object Goto Object Track Object 2 Update while Tracking Filter Wheel Position Focus Position Derotator Position Last Check Report J s Reported Error Execute Spiral Name Value Range to Center 00 00 00 00 Progress for Range 0 00 i4 ul 4 ii gt Step Time 500 ms Step Width small 00 00 00 10 O large 02 30 00 00 gt Focus Offset gt Derotator Nasmyth 1 Offset gt Derotator Nasmyth 2 Offset gt Dome Azimuth Offset The purpose of this perspective is to Stop Tracking Dome Position E Axes Positions 23 Axes Positions v Instrumental Name Azimuth Zenith
28. the value given within the AsTelOS configuration Default value there is 10000 e Click OK to save the changes Telescope Control 0 10 1 or newer Edit the Stellarium config ini Note For Linux it may be found at within the stellarium folder in the user home directory a Switch on the telescope support within section astro astro flag telescopes true flag telescope name true b Add section telescopes to declare how the telescope servers e g AsTelOS GUI can be reached telescopes 1 AsTel0S TCP localhost 10000 500000 Interesting settings here are 1 is the key binding for the telescope within Stellarium AsTelOS is the displayed name of the telescope 16 Stellarium Telescope tutorial at http stellarium org wiki index php Telescope Control 92 GUI FW AsTelO0S Manual 579 6 2 Efficient Data Input localhost is the name or IP where the server and therefore AsTelOS is running on 10000 is the default port of the Stellarium server 500000 is the delay in microseconds for displaying the current telescope location this is used for interpolation and should be in the same region as the update time for sending the telescope positions Note Do not get confused with the settings for a TPL server AsTelOS GUI includes its own Stellarium server see section 3 4 on page 18 about how the configuration can be seen and changed 2 Start Stellarium enter the site location After
29. time GUI FW AsTelOS Manual 579 15 3 Preferences Maximum spiral distance The maximum distance from the initial center is set here The number of rounds to be executed with the FOV parameter is automatically determined Note Entering a large value will result in increased probability of identifying the wrong target decreased specificity whereas a small value only decreases the probability of catching a target at all decreased sensitivity 3 2 Catalogs The main catalog preference page contains no configuration settings Catalogs that need configuration will provide sub pages below this node 3 2 1 Heavens Above Several settings can be changed regarding the acquisition of orbit data for satellites and calculation of their passes Heavens Above wv Settings for the Heavens Above online catalog acquisition and pass calculation Ignore passes when sun is above drop altitude rop Altitude of Sun 90 0 90 0 E Ignore passes and part of passes that are not sun lit Tracking mode for found passes D Track Position Track Pass Trajectory Initial track altitude 0 0 90 0 5 0 The settings are Ignore passes when sun is above drop altitude Enables the next input field Passes are inter preted as invisible if the sun is above the specified altitude Drop Altitude of the sun The altitude of the sun as indicator for a too bright sky Negative values are interpreted as beyond the horizon Igno
30. 0 Used Telescope Port Nasmythl Select another Port Important is the setting of the port for the observation Used Telescope Port applies for telescopes with rotating M3 mirror This is done by clicking the Select another Port button the port selection dialog is opened Target Options Select the used Telescope Port from the List Index Name 3 Nasmyth 2 Note The Telescope Target Editing view will show this selection dialog if an invalid port setting was found see section 4 10 on page 37 Local Setup is used to enter time settings and location data of the telescope site It can be chosen between using the telescope GPS as the source or enter the data directly Data Source w Local Setup Data Source Telescope Latitude of Telescope Longitude of Telescope Height of Telescope m Difference between UT1 and UTC s rence between TAI and UTC s 42 GUI_FW AsTel0S Manual 579 4 11 Telescope Target Options Environment Setup Enter the values or select the source of the ambient temperature and pressure Environment Setup Data Source Weather Station M selectable Data Sources User Defined enter the values in the fields below Weather Station use the weather station connected to the cab inet External Weather Station via Weather Data Injector use the WDI program to forward the current ambient pressure and tem perature Focus Setup
31. 0 00 0 00 Name Position i i i Azimuth i 120 35 53 12 Range to Center 00 00 00 00 z i P for R 0 00 96 i Zenith Distance i 11 27 28 68 rogress for Range Name optional Add New Remove Selected Remove All Ear i 0 0000 mm 14 ini 4 ii gt File Name Server Load Measurements Save Measurements Derotator Nasmyth 1 i 128 44 16 00 Calculate new Model Save calculated Model Derotator Nasmyth 2 i er te epos Step Time 500 ms Dome Azimuth i 119 59 58 91 Dome Slit i open Dome Flap i open LEO Dome Seal i UNKNOWN 8 small 00 00 00 10 i v Horizontal O large 02 30 00 00 Name Position Azimuth i 120 34 52 94 Altitude 1 78 34 19 69 Focus Offset Derotator i 231 15 44 00 Derotator Nasmyth 1 Offset v Equatorial gt Derotator Nasmyth 2 Offset Name Position Dome Azimuth Offset Right Ascension 2000 12h 50m 46 47s Declination J2000 i 41 08 26 36 Position Angle i 00 04 13 47 Parallactic Angle i 50 13 52 24 w Local The purpose of this perspective is to e Make or improve the pointing model of the telescope see section 6 4 on page 55 5 4 Object Tracking The Object Tracking perspective consist additionally to the basic views of the Axes Offsets view see section 4 6 on page 26 in the left with the linked Telescope Target Editing see section 4 10 on page 37 and Telescope Target Options see section 4 11 on page 42 views in
32. 2 ee 4 9 Pointing Model Control 4 9 1 Pointing Model Wizard 4 10 Telescope Target Editing 4 10 1 Extension Custom Catalog 4 11 Telescope Target Options 4 17 CUBO Catalog uus n o asadas eomm eed Zl Ce 2 4 X PRoeokom 30539 ege WX Wb R we ow os aie Wu o AAN A15 a OR xw o4 ow 4o o9 wow RR A X oe E we uy es O O ONN GUI_FW AsTelOS Manual 579 Contents 5 Perspectives 5 1 Handling Perspectives 3 a eee AA ee ews a2 PMG 2 ox paro bbe 9 aae AA Oo Fomine Modelo 34x99 o3 9o 6 9 dox o4 oe dede oko do 39 Ro xe x Ry c ESI bros EP 6 How To 6 1 Setup the Software uuo ow o mom Bee eee ERE Sed AA 3 6 1 1 Configure Telescope Connection clle 6 1 2 Configure Auto Connect s aoao e e Lo Conigure Stellarium 2 2 4 ceda a 62 Biicient Data Input o scoo certero d didda ow as 6 3 Power Up Down the Telescope o 2s 0 4 Making a Pointing Model lt s e ss s o ce Romeo som Rom RS we wD A 609 xw 3 94 ox 9 po3 XE ocho ROW Rode oXx Ro a wx US x p A DD Search within CalalogS ceo capas taa 6 6 1 General Approach for Searching 6 6 2 Data Field Typed scada ria DOS BIA PIS 2 cc eee ee dos GOA Custom Catalog oo uos we amp odes bad BOO ERE ow SE OO MEL TIO eee 2 nse eee arras DEDOS Tv LAOS 6 ceo asa 6 6 7 Heavens Aboveonlinecatalog llle 6 6 8 Sesame Name Resolver online catalo
33. AsTelOS GUI User Manual Version 1 3 6 Document ID GUI_FW AsTel0S Manual Revision 579 as of July 8 2011 16 29 22 Revision history Date Changes 16 12 2009 1 0 initial revision ms 17 12 2009 1 1 spelling corrected mr ms 22 02 2010 1 2 Stellarium Server 3 4 6 1 3 Axes Offset 4 8 catalog searching 6 6 log files 7 4 ms 26 05 2010 1 2 2 new screenshots Telescope 3D 4 3 Axes Positions 4 4 Cabinet 4 5 Target Editing 4 10 Target Options 4 11 general revision PDF hyperlinks layout mr ms 07 07 2010 1 2 4 preferences 3 Axes Positions 3 6 2 Radar View 4 2 Tycho2 NGC IC catalog 6 6 5 6 6 6 ms 16 08 2010 1 3 0 Pointing Model Wizard 4 9 1 fit quality 4 9 measurement quality distribution in radar view 4 2 Axes Offsets view 3 6 1 ms 15 09 2010 1 3 1 WDI 4 11 ms 04 10 2010 1 3 2 TLE data in Telescope Target view 4 10 TLE pass in radar view 4 2 ms 16 12 2010 1 3 4 Custom Catalog view 4 12 persistent Telescope Target view 4 10 ms 14 02 2011 1 3 5 camera support 3 1 6 7 4 13 Pointing Model Wizard 4 9 1 ms 30 04 2011 1 3 6 Heavens Above 3 2 1 6 6 7 and Sesame 3 2 2 6 6 8 as catalogs ms AsTelOS GUI User Manual Version 1 3 6 Document ID GUI FW AsTel0S Manual Revision 579 as of July 8 2011 16 29 22 by Mario S misch Copyright O tau tec GmbH Vor dem Kreuzberg 17 72070 T bingen Germany all rights reser
34. Button Combo Hyperlink Label Text Held Section Group Status Line push button a simple button radio button a set of mostly round choices from which one can be chosen combo box an expandable list with textual choices Sometimes the choice can by typed in directly table formats the presented data like a spreadsheet with rows for each data element and columns for the different data types label contains only text to explain the meaning of other input widgets hyperlink label extended version of a normal label which triggers further action when clicked e g linking to a web page text field is an input field to enter textual information section is an expandable field by clicking onto the tab that contains other thematically related widgets group is a bordered area that contains other thematically related widgets Note The GUI provides the look and feel of the operating system the software is running on That s why the shown screen shots may differ from the real experience with AsTelOS GUI 2 Generic Elements 2 1 Splash Screen While starting up AsTelOS GUI presents a splash screen that explains what is done and how far the start up process has come so far ASTELOS GUI Loading Workbench GUI_FW AsTel0S Manual 579 T 2 Generic Elements 2 2 Telescope Status Status Line An overview of the telescope status is shown in the status
35. Distance Focus Derotator Nasmyth 1 Derotator Nasmyth 2 i Dome Azimuth Dome Slit Dome Flap Dome Seal Horizontal Name Azimuth Altitude Derotator v Equatorial Name Right Ascension 2000 Position 177 37 30 50 32 48 49 44 0 0000 mm 3931 3229 00 00 00 06 180 00 00 69 open open UNKNOWN Position 182 22 29 50 57 10 31 66 304 28 02 71 Position 09h 47m 16 32s Declination J2000 Position Angle Parallactic Angle w Local Name Sidereal Time UTC Latitude Longitude Height The available sections contain 14 56 48 62 00 00 00 50 015 39 12 76 Position 09h 53m 10 77s 26 05 2010 16 48 31 47 42 13 10 12 00 43 40 1848 0 m Instrumental position of the telescope axes in instrumental uncorrected coordinates Horizontal the current telescope pointing direction in the horizontal coordinate system The pointing model and refraction are taken into account Equatorial the current telescope pointing direction in the J2000 0 equatorial coordinate system Local current sidereal time UTC and telescope site location as configured or reported from the telescope system e g from a connected GPS device 4 5 Cabinet With the Cabinet view referring to the control cabinet of the telescope system reported errors can be investigated and the power of the telescope can be switched on and off 2 Cabin
36. Distance Focus Dome Azimuth Dome Slit Dome Flap Dome Seal v Horizontal Name Azimuth Altitude Derotator w Equatorial Name Right Ascension 12000 Declination J2000 Position Angle Parallactic Angle w Local e Set the tracking parameters choose the target and let the telescope track it see on page 55 6 How To 6 1 Setup the Software After a fresh installation of AsTelOS GUI site specific settings have to be made explained in the following subsections Derotator Nasmyth 1 i Derotator Nasmyth 2 i Position 121 55 04 81 DIOS OSOS 0 0000 mm 128 05 51 54 00 00 00 30 120 00 00 03 open open UNKNOWN Position 121 54 07 34 78 52 39 17 231 54 08 46 Position 12h 50m 46 57s 41 08 26 96 00 04 09 70 49 17 10 26 section 6 5 these are Note The other articles from the How To chapter assume that AsTelOS GUI is successfully connected to the TSI service 6 1 1 Configure Telescope Connection To be operational a connection to the T SI service must be established 1 Open the preferences dialog as described in section 3 on page 10 2 Choose the I PL Preferences page The actual site specific settings may vary Defaults are 50 GUI_FW AsTel0S Manual 579 6 1 Setup the Software T Preferences x type filter text 4 TPL Preferences Gor v General General Settings of the Telescope Connection Log Level
37. Distance Zones number of equally spaced zones around the measurement position to iterative find the nearest but also suitable measurement target Used Object Catalog the catalog to select the measurement targets from Note If no catalog is available the wizard cannot be used Used Target Options the target options to use for slewing to selected measurement targets Note If selected target options contain incomplete information about the used port or filter similar dialog are shown as described in section 4 11 GAP calculates the density of the currently added measurements to search for the largest gap Adding a measurement leads to an distribution of measurements equally distributed over the sky this mode is preselected if measurements were already added This process takes care for already added measurements a rerun increases the density with minimized risk of measurements lieing to close to each other Successive measurements might lie far apart causing slews over long distances B AsTelOS GUI test Settings GAP mode Number of Measurements 10 Number of calculated Samples 1 1 Luminance Constraint Weakest mag 6 Brightest mag 2 Altitude Constraint Lowest Altitude 0 Highest Altitude 90 Target Constraints Search Distance 3 Distance Zones 3 Used Object Catalog Used Target Options Settings for the GAP mode Number of Measurements the total number of mea
38. O CONFIG FINE Logging Threshold for DEBUG Messages OFF SEVERE WARNING INFO CONFIG gt FINE 2 ALL Logging of TRACE Messages OFF e ALL Logging of IO messages OFF 2 ALL Available settings are Message Level System out Define the log level that will be assigned to messages from the System out channel when they are output to the DEBUG log file Message Level System err Define the log level that will be assigned to messages from the System err channel when they are output to the DEBUG log file Logging Threshold DEBUG Define the threshold for the DEBUG output inclusive Logging Threshold TRACE Selects if TRACE message for entering and leaving internal meth ods if supported should be logged or not Logging Threshold IO Selects if IO messages between AsTelOS GUI and the connected TSI service should be logged or not Note The default values make sure that as many information as possible are logged to ease later debugging Do not alter these settings if you are not sure what to do 3 4 Stellarium Server AsTelOS GUI includes a server that provides access for Stellarium clients The default settings may be altered in case of conflicts with other running programs In this case the configuration example for Stellarium in section 6 1 3 on page 52 has to be adapted accordingly Stellarium Server wv Stellarium configuration file has to be changed to connect to the rovided interface Read ab
39. OFF zenith distance offset DOFF derotator offset COFF astrodome offset AN tilt of azimuth axis toward north AE tilt of azimuth axis toward east NPAE perpendicularity error of azimuth and zenith distance axis BNP perpendicularity error of optical and zenith distance axis TF sagging of the tube Extended Coefficients with 25 correction terms This model should be used for larger telescope or to improve the pointing precision AOFF azimuth offset ZOFF zenith distance offset DOFF derotator offset 10 Measurement as offset between the instrumental position of a sky object to the calculated theoretical position 30 GUI FW AsTelOS Manual 579 4 9 Pointing Model Control COFF astrodome offset AAN tilt of azimuth axis toward north azimuth part ZAN tilt of azimuth axis toward north zenith distance part AAE tilt of azimuth axis toward east azimuth part ZAE tilt of azimuth axis toward east zenith distance part NPAE perpendicularity error of azimuth and zenith distance axis BNP perpendicularity error of optical and zenith distance axis AES Azimuth encoder eccentricity sine part AEC Azimuth encoder eccentricity cosine part ZES Zenith distance encoder eccentricity sine part ZEC Zenith distance encoder eccentricity cosine part AS2A Azimuth correction with double azimuth argument sine part AC2A Azimuth correction with double azimuth argument cosine part AS3A Azimuth correction with trip
40. Pluto and some of their moons Object Name Earth w Moon Name Moon ww Catalog Object contains a flexible access to catalogs Objects can be obtained from these by selecting and entering different search parameters instead of typing their celestial coordinates E g the name may be entered directly or a search is triggered within a certain radius around the given equatorial coordinate w Catalog Object Catalog Name NGC w Description The New General Catalogue NGC and the Messier objects Parame ter Name Parameter Type Parameter Value Object Name Free Text Object Name Difference Integer 0 Right Ascension h i Floating Point Declination Floating Point RA Dec Search Range Floating Point 02 30 00 00 Object Diameter Floating Point Range i Unspecified Magnitude mag i Floating Point Range Selected Result none selected 0 available Note The Pick a Search Result button is disabled if the current search parameters matched no catalog entry If the search matches more than one object these can be selected in the shown dialog It can be accessed through the Pick another Search Result button It is also automatically shown when the search encountered ambiguous results using the Check Object Goto Object or Track Object of the execution group see below GUI FW AsTelO0S Manual 579 39 4 Views Target Editing Catalog Object Select a Result from the Li
41. Select the correction terms used for the calculation of the focus position Focus Setup Move to Defined Position Apply Thermal Model Apply Offset of the used Port Apply Offset of the used Alter Do not update Position when Tracking Position of Focus mm 0 003 Update with current Position The Update with Current Position button copies the current focus position into the focus position field left to it Note The acquired position includes the current focus offset as well as applied corrections This can lead to unexpected results when the correction is then applied again or when the existing focus offset is not set to zero after using this button Derotator Setup Choose between different derotator modes Derotator Tracking Mode Off the derotator will not be used Custom Offset as fixed Position the entered offset will be used as dero tator position True Orientation with custom Offset true orientation tracks e g north to be in the same image direction of a camera attached to the derotator An additional offset can be applied True Orientation with Multiple of 90 Degree Offset true orientation but with additional integer multiple of 90 degrees applied to reach the target position faster True Orientation with Multiple of 90 Degree and custom Offset same as above but with the additional offset entered True Orientation with arbitrary Offset the derotator start
42. Server Image processing pipeline P TPL Preferences Grayscale Conversion b User Interface Temporal Mean Dark Frame Custom 3x3 Filter a Centroid Search i Available processing stages III ELT Restore Defaults Apply 3 1 Camera 3 1 1 Structure The camera settings provide numerous settings that are grouped into sub section to provide more structured overview As the components are highly modularized the following image of a specific structure can only be taken as an example v Camera Y Input Sources Directory IP Camera v Processing Stages Centroid Search Custom 3x3 Filter Dark Frame Temporal Mean v Tasks Derotator Axis Save Frames Target Centering 3 1 2 Page Camera The topmost camera preference page contains central information what camera input is used and how the camera process pipeline is build up 10 GUI FW AsTelOS Manual 579 3 1 Camera Camera vov v General settings of the camera processing pipeline Image source Directory v Image processing pipeline Grayscale Conversion Temporal Mean Dark Frame Edge Detection Sobel x Centroid Search Available processing stages v Settings Image Source The currently used input source can be selected with the drop down list The specific settings of the sources are described in the next section Image processing pipeline The stages of the processing pipeline are visible in the middle The selected stage can be moved u
43. The Error Log view gives an overview about internal errors 46 GUI FW AsTelOS Manual 579 O Error Log X Sarin X B i5 Workspace Log Message Plug in Date v XJ The proxied handler for org eclipse ui internal views markers org eclipse ui 2009 10 22 01 00 30 243 9 Plug in org eclipse ui ide was unable to instantiate class org eclipse equinox registry 2009 10 22 01 00 30 244 The proxied handler for org eclipse ui internal views markers org eclipse ui 2009 10 22 01 00 30 242 M The proxied handler for org eclipse ui internal views markers org eclipse ui 2009 10 22 01 00 30 240 9 Plug in org eclipse ui ide was unable to instantiate class org eclipse equinox registry 2009 10 22 01 00 30 241 The proxied handler for org eclipse ui internal views markers org eclipse ui 2009 10 22 01 00 30 239 v 9 The proxied handler for org eclipse ui internal views markers org eclipse ui 2009 10 22 01 00 30 123 9 Plug in org eclipse ui ide was unable to instantiate class org eclipse equinox registry 2009 10 22 01 00 30 124 The proxied handler for org eclipse ui internal views markers org eclipse ui 2009 10 22 01 00 30 120 hd The proxied handler for org eclipse ui internal ide handlers C org eclipse ui 2009 10 22 01 00 30 112 Most of the listed problems shouldn t give cause for concern Only if unexpected things happen it makes sense to investigate logged problems that happened at roughly the same tim
44. able and sections of the Auxiliary Parts group may be visible 4 7 Resource Client Traffic The Resource Client Traffic view allows the inspection of the data flow on the TPL connection to the TSI service As this provides information on a very technical level it is mainly for monitoring reasons and not further explained Y Resource Client Traffic 23 B recv m125554118965142 10094 VAIA INLINE PUSIIIUN LULAL LUNGIIUDE TL11 5649 A recv 1255541189612 76894 DATA INLINE POSITION LOCAL SIDEREAL_TIME 19 77188958686736 recv 1255541189612 76894 DATA INLINE POSITION LOCAL UTC 1 255541189272867E9 recv 1255541189612 76894 DATA INLINE TELESCOPE MOTION_STATE 0 recv 1255541189612 76894 DATA INLINE TELESCOPE READY_STATE 1 0 recv 1255541189612 76894 DATA INLINE TELESCOPE STATUS GLOBAL 8 recv 1255541189612 76894 COMMAND COMPLETE Note This traffic messages as well as more debug information is logged by AsTelOS GUI see section 7 4 on page 64 4 8 Axes Offsets The Axes Offsets view displays all available axes and presents their current offsets within the table at the top They can be altered by entering new offsets directly into the table or with the panels underneath Gi Axes Offsets 23 ls Axes Offsets Current Axis Offsets Axis Name Offset Azimuth i 00 00 00 00 Zenith Distance E 00 00 00 00 Focus E 0 0000 mm Derotator Nasmyth 1 E 00 00 00 00 Derotator Nasmyth 2 E 00 00 00 00 Dome Azimuth
45. above are opened in a separate Telescope Target Editing view see section 4 10 on page 37 As their native section is used all details of the objects are revealed Remove Selected Entry Remove the entries currently selected in the Entries table above These will be removed without further asking Note Selecting more than one entry of the Entries table is possible 4 13 Camera To look at the raw or processed output of the camera image processing pipeline this view can be used The preferences are explained in section on page What is shown on a processed image depends on the setup of the pipeline itself explained in section 6 7 on page 60 i Camera 33 mI Camera Su Frame Acquisition Save Frames Adjust Centroid Tile Size Estimate Position of Derotator Axis Search and Center Target The Camera view provides a context menu with the following settings Start Stop frame acquisition Will start or stop the acquisition of camera frames Note Camera tasks might trigger acquisition of frames even if acquisition is disable in this view these frames will also be shown here Save Frames Start camera task that captures frames as specified in the preferences of this view section GUI FW AsTelO0S Manual 579 45 4 Views Adjust Centroid Tile Size Start camera task that changes the global and local tile sizes of the centroid processing stage see Note
46. adily with the tele Scope Continuous Movement with custom Offset as above additionally with the entered offset Dome Setup Dome Tracking Mode Discrete Movemen t Maximum Position Deviation 05 00 00 00 set of Dome Position Handle Datasets allows managing existing datasets as well as creating new ones The Manage Dataset buttons will affect the currently selected item in the Choose Dataset table e Clone Item clones the data set and appends cloned to the name of the new set e New Item adds a data set with basic settings and drops it under the current selection e Remove Item removes the data set Note Removing the default data set leads to adding another default dataset with basic settings The name of the default data is locked but another data set may be equally named 44 GUI FW AsTelO0S Manual 579 4 12 Custom Catalog 4 12 Custom Catalog The Custom Catalog view lists the entries in the catalog that were added before by the user Entries and buttons to manage the data sets Manage f Custom Catalog 23 Custom Catalog Catalog Entries Name Type Flat Field Target 2P Encke Entries ISS Mars Instrumental i Elements i Two Line Elements Solar System Europa Jupiter Solar System Manage Show Selected Entry Remove Selected Entry The available buttons are Show Selected Entry All the selected entries from the Entries table
47. ame M1 M2 M3 Nasmyth1l Nasmyth2 v Switches Name New Value for Selected Switch 0 Status of all available Axes Axis Name Power State Azimuth on Zenith Distance on Focus i on Derotator Nasmyth 1 on Derotator Nasmyth 2 i on Dome Azimuth i on Dome Slit on Dome Flap i on Dome Seal i on Reference State referenced E referenced referenced E referenced referenced E referenced referenced i referenced i referenced Error State working i working i working j working i working working i working working E working For thematic separation there are two groups Open Open Operation Mode Selected Speed Selection Name Value 10 128 8 504 Unit Numeric Numeric 7481 7 971 7 988 Numeric Numeric Numeric Value Unit Motion Limit free i free free i free free i free free free i UNKNOWN UNKNOWN UNKNOWN Close Close Motion State trajectory accurate E trajectory accurate accurate i trajectory accurate accurate i trajectory accurate accurate E accurate i UNKNOWN Auxiliary Parts contains auxiliary axes that partly provide buttons to change their state The sections are Cover shows the current position of the mirror cover and open close it manually Dome shows the current position of the dome enclosure and open close it manually 26 GUI_FW A
48. amera pipeline shows the processed camera frame overlaid with debugging information from the Centroid Search processing stage see section 6 7 on page 60 31 Camera X at Camera To control some aspects of the camera pipeline the camera view provides a context menu 20 GUI FW AsTelOS Manual 579 3 6 User Interface gi Camera X m Camera Start Frame Acquisition Save Frames Adjust Centroid Tile Size Estimate Position of Derotator Axis Search and Center Target The entries of the context menu Start Stop Frame Acquisition Checking this entry the camera pipeline will start or stop cap turing frames Note Even if capturing is stopped a job accessing the camera pipeline can trigger capturing frames Save Frames Start a camera job that saves the next frames The number is specified in the camera preferences Adjust Centroid Tile Size Start a camera job that will determine a suitable size of tiles for the centroid stage Note A target must be visible in the camera frame and the Centroid Search processing stage must be added to the pipeline Estimate Position of Derotator Axis Start a camera job that estimates the geometric center of the derotator on the camera chip Note A target must be visible in the camera frame the Centroid Search processing stage must be added to the pipeline and a derotator must be attached to the port that is currently in use Searc
49. are application lock is used as communication interface to prevent AsTelOS GUI from being started twice on the same computer GUI_FW AsTel0S Manual 579 65
50. c y m a 22 GUI FW AsTelO0S Manual 579 4 2 Radar A fast view makes the view floating above the currently opened perspective and shows its icon near the fast view button The view can be moved around and added to the currently seen perspective by dropping it onto or between the other views Note Views also may be opened through other interactions even by clicking a menu item Because AsTelOS GUI is based on the powerful Eclipse RCP technology doing these things is very flexible and couldn t be explained in every detail feel free to explore it 4 2 Radar The Radar view shows the current telescope pointing direction The sky can be interpreted as looking up to the zenith which is located in the middle of the view The horizon is at the outer ring and the cardinal directions north east south west are marked on the edge Radar 23 gt B Radar etn ESSERE OCA MM MM SERIO BART ATT A context menu is available that can be used to interact with the view It is listing actions for objects that are near the position of the executed right click together with some generic actions These elements are visualised Telescope Pointing The current pointing of the telescope is shown with a large filled blob The color of this dot reflect the current tracking state and is the same as in the Telescope field of the status line see section 2 2 Telescope Traje
51. ctory A custom telescope trajectory e g to follow an object can be drawn to visualise this path It is mainly used for showing the passes of satellites specified by their Two Line Elements see section 4 10 Pointing History The last telescope pointings are shown as a dotted line in the same color as the pointing blob Telescope Target Whenever the visibility of an object is checked in the Telescope Target Editing view and the target found to be above the horizon an upright cross is displayed at the initial target position It is colored as if the telescope is in the tracking state Additionally a dashed line is draw between the current pointing and this target marker in the color for the slewing state GUI FW AsTelOS Manual 579 23 4 Views Pointing Model Measurements Taken measurements will be displayed with small x s These can be shown and also hidden again through the context menu of this view This menu also reveals the name of a nearby measurement if one was given Note The specific coloring depends on the operating system settings The only exception are red colored measurements visualizing their bad fit gt 3 c deviation from the mean error of the fit distribution Tycho2 Stars Stars up to the fifth magnitude are show with filled blobs of different sizes Within the context menu it can be selected that the properties of nearby stars are loaded into a new Telescope Target Editing view and or that the tel
52. e Double clicking a logged event opens a dialog with more details Mo Event Details Date 2009 10 22 01 00 30 243 Severity 9 Error Message The proxied handler for B org eclipse ui internal views markers ConfigureColumnsHand ler could not be loaded 4L gt Exception Stack Trace org eclipse core runtime CoreException Plug in org eclipse ui ide was unable to at org eclipse core internal registry osgi RegistryStrategyOSGI throwException Re at org eclipse core internal registry osgi RegistryStrategyOSGl createExecutableE at org eclipse core internal registry ExtensionRegistry createExecutableExtensionle at org eclipse core internal registry ConfigurationElement createExecutableExtens at org eclipse core internal registry ConfigurationElementHandle createExecutable at org eclipse ui internal handlers HandlerProxyloadHandler HandlerProxy java 33 at org eclipse ui internal handlers HandlerProxyisEnabled HandlerProxy java 304 at org eclipse core commands Command isEnabled Command java 833 at org eclipse core commands Command setHandler Command java 965 4 b Session Data 4 b Here the Exception Stack Trace is most interesting because it can help to find the source of a misbehavior 5 Perspectives This section will introduce the default perspectives that assemble the views presented within section 4 on page 22 The default layout situated on the right contains several views
53. e data field are used together to represent different use cases e If Right Ascension Declination and RA DEC Search Range are all specified a search for objects around the given RA DEC position is triggered If the range is not given a default value 2 5 degree is chosen If one of Right Ascension or Declination is missing the RA DEC Search Range gives the maximal distance for objects to the given coordinate If the range is not v2 5 given a default value y 1 so that the matching area is nearly equal to the search circle around a RA DEC position All other data fields which allow a range of values to be entered are processed independently and will further narrow down the resulting objects All the basic use cases can be combined in a search request narrowing down the resulting objects independently 6 6 6 Tycho2 Catalog The Tycho2 catalog behaves much like the NGC IC catalog see section 6 6 5 The remaining differences are given by other catalog data being available Available data fields are e Object Name e Right Ascension Declination RA DEC Search Range e RA Proper Motion DEC Proper Motion Visual Magnitude BV Color 1 The used target types are Instrumental Horizontal Equatorial Elements Two Line Elements Solar System and Catalog 22 http cdsarc u strasbg fr cgi bin qcat VI1 118 2 The catalog specific naming scheme is NGC IC
54. e preceding page Note With this feature enabled AsTelOS GUI will try to connect by itself after the start up and even connection losses GUI_FW AsTel0S Manual 579 l 6 How To 6 1 3 Configure Stellarium Below only the absolute necessary steps are described First the telescope plug in used with Stellarium and after that the direct method used for versions without telescope plug in is explained More information about the latter one is available within the official instructions Download the Stellarium program for the used platform and install it Note For many Linux distributions Stellarium can be found within the official repositories Telescope Plug in 0 10 5 or newer 1 Start Stellarium Choose the configuration window in the left pane or press F2 Go to the extension tab and select the Telescope Control plug in 2 Select the checkbox to load the plug in at the startup of Stellarium and close Stellarium 3 Open the extension tab again see the second step Click the config button that opens the config dialog of the telescope plug in 4 Clicking the Add button will open a dialog window to configure the new telescope connection a Choose External Software or a remote computer b Enter a name for the shown telescope position like AsTelOS c Select the Start connect at startup check box d In the Connection Setting section the TCP Port must be set to
55. educe the noise Note The image acquisiting rate is expected as five frames per second If the actual rate differs much the number of frames used for temporal averaging should be adopted see section 3 1 Removing static residuals and to flatten the image background the dark frame subtraction is utilized Note A suitable dark frame must be saved before this step could be fully working This is done when no light is reaching the camera but it is capturing images In the preference setting a dark image can be added see section 3 1 Applying a spatial average with the custom 3x3 filter is done as the last image preparation At the very last stage the centroid search is executed to check for a target in the so far prepared image The pipeline results is for the example image this output the object is clearly detected 7 Trouble Shooting This section cares about common problems and how to deal with them 62 GUI FW AsTelO0S Manual 579 1 1 Telescope Errors reported 7 1 Telescope Errors reported Errors more precisely events the user has to acknowledge are reported so that the user can react adequately 1 Signaling reported errors is done through the telescope status panel situated in the status line see section 2 2 on page 8 If the Error text field reports INFO WARN ERROR or PANIC these events can be investigated more thoroughly 2 Open the Engineering pers
56. ered to the pipeline GUI FW AsTelO0S Manual 579 11 3 Preferences IP Camera IP Cameras that provide a MJPEG stream can be used to serve as input source IP Camera or vv Settings for the IP camera input provider URL to MJPEG stream of an IP camera Username to access the MJPEG stream Password to access the MJPEG stream Settings URL to MJPEG stream the URL with protocol server name port and path to the MJPEG stream of the camera Note Such a MJPEG stream might be accessible even if the camera does not provide a direct link to it Username User name for the HTTP authentication if the stream is protected for anonymous access Password Password for the HTTP authentication if the stream is protected for anonymous access 3 1 4 Section Processing Stages The main preference page of the processing stages section leads to the preference pages of the specific stage Centroid Search Settings for the processing stage that searches for a bright target This search happens in two stages First the brightest area of the image is guessed Second the for brightness weighted mean is calculated Centroid Search vv Settings for the centroid calculation handler size of the global tiles rough estimation 20 size of the local tiles fine adjustment 2 minimum confidence for a trusted detection 5 0 draw debug symbols onto the image inner radius of the fine adjusted cross hair 15 outer radius of the f
57. escope immediately starts slewing to it Note Drawing the stars is optional and depends on the availability of the Tycho2 catalog plug in NGC Objects NGC IC objects up to the fifth magnitude are shown with outlined blobs of different sizes They can be handled the same way as the Tycho2 stars Note Drawing these objects is optional and depends on the availability of the NGC catalog plug in 4 3 Telescope 3D Another representation of the current telescope pointing direction in the horizontal coordinate system is provided by the Telescope 3D view A telescope model visualizes the azimuth and altitude pointing If a dome is available a transparent model will be shown around the telescope It visualizes the current azimuth of the telescope and the open close state of the shutter Telescope 3D N 23 EB The initial viewing direction is toward the north After changing the default direction the current one is shown in the title of the view By right clicking into the view holding down the button and moving the cursor the viewing direction can be altered 4 4 Axes Positions The Axes Positions view provides more sophisticated information about the position of the telescope axes and the pointing direction of the telescope The shown axes can be configured as described in section 3 6 2 24 GUI FW AsTelO0S Manual 579 45 Cabinet Gj Axes Positions Z3 Axes Positions Instrumental Name Azimuth Zenith
58. et 23 Cabinet Power State on Switch Events On System Overview System DRIVES SYSTEM AUXILIARY UNKNOWN Event Details Event State INFO none i none i none Component Message Details ZD DRIVES ERR Soft Limit ma 6 Universal Time Coordinated 7 Global Positioning System Acknowledge Events Off GUI_FW AsTel0S Manual 579 20 4 Views It consists of two sections Telescope Power shows the current power state off transitioning on With the provided buttons the telescope power can be changed to the desired state Telescope Errors gives an overview over the telescope systems Drives System Auxiliary Unknown and their event state Info Warning Error Panic It further lists all the reported error messages with the involved component event message and an optional description Note Acknowledge and Clear the reported errors only if they do not imply a severe problem with the telescope Especially if the same severe error rises more often the telescope may be damaged by acknowledging the error again and again 4 6 Axes Status The Axes Status view provides an overview and basic interaction with the available instrumental axes GY Axes Status 23 Axes Status Auxiliary Parts w Cover Cover Position closed w Dome Dome Position UNKNOWN v Paddle Is Active UNKNOWN Brightness UNKNOWN Selection Number w Sensors N
59. ferencing of the axes hence they will move then too 54 GUI_FW AsTel0S Manual 579 6 4 Making a Pointing Model 6 4 Making a Pointing Model A telescope has various static and dynamic pointing errors These have to be compensated with the help of star measurements Support for this is provided in the Pointing Model see section 5 3 on page 49 accompanied with the Object Tracking perspective see section 5 4 on page 49 1 2 Open the Object Tracking perspective Choose and track a celestial target with precisely known coordinates generally stars from a catalog like Tycho The star should be bright enough to clearly locate it on the camera or eyepiece but not too bright to avoid outshining Center the target by changing the main axes offsets within the Axes Offsets view There are some ways to generate the necessary feedback with increasing precision a Center it through an eye piece This is a rough method e g to catch the target when building a pointing model from scratch Precision can be increased by using an eye piece with cross hair b Center the target within the recorded picture of a camera c Determine the mechanical derotator axis within the recorded camera picture by rotating the derotator using offsets in the Axes Offsets view and center the target onto the rotation center Open the Pointing Model perspective Enter a name for the meas
60. ffset view see section 4 8 on page 28 Tools contains a wizard that helps with creating or improving a pointing model This helper tool is started by clicking the Add more Measurements button and explained in subsection 4 9 1 4 9 1 Pointing Model Wizard The pointing model wizard helps in adding measurements for an improved pointing model quality When the wizard is started the used mode has to be selected A reasonable preselection is done respecting the suitability of the modes 32 GUI FW AsTelO0S Manual 579 4 9 Pointing Model Control T AsTelOS GUI test El Execution Mode Build new or improve old model Mode Position Calculation 2 GRID mode Use equally spaced measurements This will clear prior measurements O GAP mode Add measurements between the most distant measurements Mode Centering AUTOMATIC mode Target is searched with a camera O MANUAL Mode Adjust axes offsets by hand Pointing Measurements creation doesn t wait for user Position Calculation modes GRID calculates measurement position equally spaced on the sky this mode is preselected if no measurement was added before Measurement positions are precalculated and slewing can be optimized to speed up pointing model creation Doesn t take care for existing measurements which might lead to previous measurements lieing close to taken ones T AsTelOS GUI test Settings GRID mode Number of
61. files that store settings mainly UI dependent As the files are created by the Eclipse RCP used by AsTelOS GUI they are not explained further here log properties with settings about the logging that can be changed as described in section 3 3 1 on page 18 7 4 2 Data Directory The files stored at this location are either for caching purposes or logging tasks If this directory grows too big it may be deleted AsTelOS GUI will recover from it Note Shut down AsTelOS GUI first if you are planning to erase it There are different sub directories used for saving logging information DataBase The sub directories apply each to one Java DB database that is used within the program Debug The files inside are used in rotation scheme with the newest file named Debug __0 log It contains are various messages from the program that should help with debugging 1O The files inside are also used in a rotation scheme with the newest file called IO_0 log Here is all TPL traffic between AsTelOS GUI and the TSI service stored orekit The files are used by Orekit that helps in calculating apparent position for TLEs Snapshots If a user triggers taking a log snapshot as described in section 2 2 on page 8 a copy of the snapshot is archived here Trace The files inside uses the rotation scheme too and the newest file is Irace 0 log Detailed messages about entering and leaving internal functions are stored Other data files
62. g 6 7 Insights into the camera processing pipeline ln 6 7 1 Available processing stages ee 6 1 2 The default pipeline 226 5484 o o o o omo ee bee eee ces 1 Trouble Shooting T l Telescope Errors reported ccn 1 2 Telescope not tracking 1 222 2 we ew Rom B 9o 9o 9 m x A Lo Reporting a All uuu os woe om mox Eo AAA THEE eg TA Cache File Structure cocoa rara ue 9B E E OR S homo 3e us Ll Coniguration Directory ssi eh xo wok a v3 os DA AIR DEBES da 8o o9 ee eae x PUE eee 54 E SE A 47 4T 48 49 49 50 50 50 ol 92 09 54 09 59 56 56 ov ov 58 58 58 59 59 60 60 62 GUI_FW AsTel0S Manual 579 1 Terminology This product is based on Eclipse Rich Client Platform RCP technology The naming definitions are in accordance with the Eclipse RCP A short overview about the nomenclature also used throughout the manual is given here AsTelOS GUI File Admin Window Help E FH Object Tracking dj Axes Offsets 23 Axes Offsets Current Axis Offsets Axis Name Change Axis Offsets p lt open fast view lt menu bar gt perspective bar El Ei Telescope Target Editing 2 Telescope Target Options perspective Br Telescope Radar 3 Xy Telescope 3D E Target Editing Enter Data Instrumental Position Horizontal Position Equatorial Position gt Elements Object Solar System Object Catalog Ob
63. g is only available online and therefore using it requires a working internet connection Note As the catalog connector is designed with screen scraping techniques it can stop working if the format of the delivered data is changed 6 6 8 Sesame Name Resolver online catalog Available data field to search is e Object Name The answer may contain the following data fields e Name Type e Right Ascension Declination e RA Proper Motion DEC Proper Motion e U B V R I J H K Magnitude Sesame name resolver is an online service with a standardized Web API It uses primarily Simbad and NED for name resolution For the usage a working internet connection is necessary Note As the format of the API is fixed it is not expected that the service voids function but this possibility couldn t be excluded either 25 Closing AsTelOS during the conversion process is possible as AsTelOS will recover from this but will loose the already made progress 2 The catalog specific name is e g YO 5949 277 1 for Sirius can be used to denote an abitrary char and for any length of arbitrary chars 27 Minimal altitude a specific 28 Minimal magnitude a specific pass must reach to be reported GUI_FW AsTel0S Manual 579 99 6 How To 6 7 Insights into the camera processing pipeline Where and how to change the processing pipeline is described in section 3 1 on page 10 describing the according preference pages 6
64. g pipeline Custom 3x3 Filter Qv Dv v Change the coefficients of the 3x3 filter kernel x 1 x oP dl E50 1 0 2 0 1 0 y 2 0 4 0 2 0 y 1 11 0 2 0 1 0 normalize coefficients Settings coefficients x 1 y 1 The filter values for any x y pixel and their nearest neighbors Note Resulting brightness values outside minimal black or maximal white are limited to their extreme values normalize coefficients will scale the coefficients that the sum of all equals one This mean the mean brightness is not changed Dark Frame To subtract static brightness influencing the image this processing stage can be used Using this stage helps a lot in centroid detecting Dark Frame Or ov v Manage Dark Frames and acquire new ones Image formats 640 480 Gray 8 Bit v Available Images testl test2 mets 7 x New Image Name ar Available Settings and Inputs Image Formats The image format for which dark frames are available The format contains of the width height and type of the image Available Images The dark images that are available for the selected format The name is prepended with an asterisk if the image is the default one for the format Note The buttons to the left of the list are used to set the selected image as the new default bullseye and to remove the selected image x Removing a file is not undoable GUI FW AsTelOS Manual 579 13 3 Preferences New Image Na
65. h and Center Target Start a camera job that searches a target with spiraling the offsets if configured in that way and center it in the position that is specified in the preferences default center of image Note A target must be visible in the camera frame or near to the current fov depending on the given preferences Also the Centroid Search processing stage must be added to the pipeline 3 6 4 Telescope 3D View Several settings are provided to alter the displayed scene of the Telescope 3D view see section 4 3 on page 24 Telescope 3D View Pr Dv y OpenGL telescope view visualisation preferences Telescope Model default telescope Dome Model default dome Model Texture Aluminum Brush A AS AE Sky Box Sunset Terrain Texture Chiseled Ice GUI FW AsTelO0S Manual 579 21 4 Views Available settings are Telescope Model T he 3D model of the displayed telescope Dome Model The 3D model of the displayed telescope dome Note The dome model is only displayed if a dome is available Model Texture The texture that is applied to the surfaces of the model both telescope and dome Sky Box A sky box includes wall textures with lighting information for the whole scene Terrain Texture The texture that is applied to the floor 4 Views 4 1 Handling Views The main way to access a view is to open a perspective that contains it see section 5 on page 47 Another generic way to open a view
66. his aids in reducing the mean value and flattens deviations of the background Edge Detection Sobel A star is expected to be a spot with more or less steep edge Applying the sobel edge detection filter yields in amplifying the signal of such a spot The image shouldn t be too noisy if using this filter otherwise the result might be worsened Grayscale Conversion Reducing the calculation effort of later processing stages the image might be reduced to a monochromatic version This is realized with this processing stage Temporal Mean If the camera input is too noisy a temporal averaging could be applied The rate of output images is reduced by be number of images used for averaging This is only useful for targets that does not move too much between the different images Instead objects might show up multiple times GUI FW AsTelOS Manual 579 61 7 Trouble Shooting 6 7 2 The default pipeline By default the pipeline is build up in this order E The grayscale conversion should reduce the futher calculation effort This means only the brightness is calculated not multiple color channels as for RGB Temporal mean is applied to reduce the load on the next processing stages A sufficient rate might be one or two images per second but this depends also on the available computation power More images might be ignored if the pipeline is fully loaded resulting in an information loss Therefore the images are used to r
67. ine adjusted cross hair 25 Settings size of global tiles The size to search for the brightest area is restricted with this setting Note The used area is twice as large as the given value here size of local tiles The size of the points used to calculate the final position within the area found before minimum confidence for a trusted detection The confidence threshold for which a target can be trusted as a real object Note This value is heavily depending on the processing pipeline and the input draw debug symbols Several debug symbols will be added to the output image e The brightest and second brightest tile is shown 12 GUI FW AsTelO0S Manual 579 3 1 Camera e The cross hair pointing to the final position is drawn e The confidence of the detected target is shown to the upper right of the final position e A lock circle around the final position as well as a dot in the upper left corner of the image is drawn if the detected target was more powerful than the given confidence Note Activating this option will render any further operations on the image useless inner radius of cross hair debug setting The cross hair can be set to leave the inner area free with this setting outer radius of cross hair debug setting The maximum length of the cross hair that is drawn from the final position Custom 3x3 Filter To apply a filter with custom coefficients this filter handler could be used in the processin
68. is to open it as a fast view see the image in section 1 on page 5 Clicking the fast view button n Show View as a fast view opens the fast view dialog type filter text a b 3 General gt Resource Clients Resource Client Tree Resource Clients v gt Telescope GB Axes Offsets Ql Axes Positions GJ Axes Status 7 Cabinet JF Pointing Model Control Radar gi Telescope 3D zi Telescope Target Editing E Telescope Target Options v Open a view from a category as a fast view by selecting it and clicking OK Y Resource Client Traffic 23 6 COMMAND COMPLETE sent 1256135515468 15791 GET POSITION EQUATORIAL DEC_J2000 POSITIO N EQUATORIAL PARALLACTIC_ANGLE POSITI ON EQUATORIAL RA J2000 POSITION HORI ZONTAL ALT POSITION HORIZONTAL AZ PO SITION HORIZONTAL DEROTATOR POSITIO N INSTRUMENTAL AZ REALPOS POSITION NSTRUMENTAL DEROTATOR 2 REALPOS POSITION INSTRUMENTAL FO CUS REALPOS POSITION INSTRUMENTAL Z D REALPOS POSITION LOCAL HEIGHT POSI TION LOCAL LATITUDE POSITION LOCAL LO NGITUDE POSITION LOCAL SIDEREAL_TIME POSITION LOCAL urc SITION HORIZONTAL DEROTATOR POSITIO N INSTRUMENTAL AZ REALPOS POSITION I NSTRUMENTAL DEROTATOR 2 REALPOS POSITION INSTRUMENTAL FO CUS REALPOS POSITION INSTRUMENTAL Z D REALPOS POSITION LOCAL HEIGHT POSI TION LOCAL LATITUDE POSITION LOCAL LO NGITUDE POSITION LOCAL SIDEREAL TIME POSITION LOCAL uT
69. ject Additional Configuration Choose Configuration Dataset Default v Change the Dataset Execute Entered Data D O Telescope Status 23 Manage Tracking Check Object Goto Object Track Object Stop Tracking Update while Tracking Filter Wheel Position Focus Position Derotator Position Dome Position v Position Instrumental Azimuth Last Check Report Zenith Distance Name Value Derotator Focus v Position Horizontal Azimuth Altitude Derotator v Position Equatorial Right Ascension Declination Position Angle v Status Error Power Movement v Location Time UTC Sidereal Time Latitude Longitude Height telescope status gt Connection disconnected Telescope UNKNOWN Errors UNKNOWN y Stop Telescope E Log Report gt progress indicator lt An Eclipse RCP window can consist of the following components from top to bottom as seen above in the image title bar as the top row is known from other programs it contains the name of the program AsTelOS GUI menu bar provides access to different menu items File Exit exit AsTelOS GUI Admin TPL Connection Manually establish or abort the TPL connection to the TSI ser vice This interaction is only for administrative purposes and should not be used Note The automatic re connect ability see section 6 1 2 on page 51 should be used by default Error Log Open the Error Log view
70. ject and the values for the azimuth and zenith distance axes _sosvoneeuancnsnscsusvsevevsecsvusssvateseosesenscsensegrosazeorsveen Position Name Azimuth 00 00 00 00 Zenith Distance 00 00 00 00 Horizontal Position contains input fields for the azimuth altitude and name of the target 11 The name of the enlarged target type section is appended to the view title and the target name of that section replaces the title GUI_FW AsTel0S Manual 579 ot 4 Views proeseccosegoesescssosescosossossscesesccosossosooesseossesog Position Name Azimuth 00 00 00 00 Altitude 00 00 00 00 Equatorial Position contains more input fields which reflect the higher complexity of equatorial data Additionally to the name right ascension and declination the proper motion epoch and equinox of the target can be provided O RA Position Name Right Ascension h 00h 00m 00 00s Declination 00 00 00 00 RA Proper Motion hour year 00h 00m 00 00s Dec Proper Motion year 00 00 00 00 Epoch julian year 2000 0 Equinox julian year 2000 0 Elements Object contains the parameters for orbital elements of ecliptic parabolic or near parabolic nature parameters that do not apply to the element type are disabled These objects are e g comets and asteroids Clicking the hyperlink label with the question for MPC Data provides a text field to enter data in the MPC format
71. lable entries selected entries Sesame Databases Sesame Databases SIMBAD VizieR gt NED 3 3 General Settings on the General node are inherited from the Eclipse RCP framework so not all may be used by AsTelOS GUI General v Always run in background Keep next previous editor view and perspectives dialog open a Show heap status Open mode Double click Single click Note This preference may not take effect on all views Some of the settings are of special interest Always run in background If this check box is selected the eclipse job dialogs are hidden This check box is also shown in the eclipse job dialogs Unselect this to show the dialogs again Show heap status Selecting this check box will show an UI element see below that informs about the currently used and the maximum available heap memory 61M oflolM Jj Note Clicking the trash button forces the execution of a garbage collection doing so is not advised GUI FW AsTelO0S Manual 579 17 3 Preferences 3 3 1 Log Levels Settings from the Log Levels node apply to the internal logging Either these are the levels of the generated messages or the minimum threshold for messages to be logged Log Levels Qv row Settings of the different Log Level Level of System out Messages DEBUG SEVERE WARNING INFO CONFIG gt FINE evel of System err Messages DEBUG SEVERE 2 WARNING INF
72. le azimuth argument sine part AC3A Azimuth correction with triple azimuth argument cosine part ZS2A Zenith Distance correction with double azimuth argument sine part ZC2A Zenith Distance correction with double azimuth argument cosine part ZS3A Zenith Distance correction with triple azimuth argument sine part ZC3A Zenith Distance correction with triple azimuth argument cosine part ZS4A Zenith Distance correction with quadruple azimuth argument sine part ZC4A Zenith Distance correction with quadruple azimuth argument cosine part C5 Zenith distance correction with inverse cosine of azimuth of azimuth Note Only one coefficient section can be extended at the same time Manage current Measurements consists of five parts Measurements table gives an overview of the taken measurements The table columns contain the object name and the axes positions with their offset and fit error The error of the altitude and azimuth axis are combined to the main axes error To show the overall fit error as well as that of the measurements the pointing model has to be calculated Name text field contains the name of the taken measurement If none is given the name is tried to be retrieved from the tracked target entry It is also possible to remove one selected or all measurement in the measurements table Note Removing unsaved measurements will result in information loss There will be no confirmation dialog This is
73. me To add the last image processed through the handler as dark frame a name must to entered in the provided text field and the plus button has to be pressed Note If the name starts with an asterisk the new dark image is also the new default one Temporal Mean Reducing the effect of noise contained within the image due to calculating a temporal average Temporal Mean br or v Settings for the processing handler to sum subsequent images Number of combined Frames default 4 1 Frame Brightness default 1 0 1 0 Resulting Image Bit Depth default 8 Bit Force 8 Bit v Available Settings Number of combined Frames The specified number of frames are combined to a final image Note The resulting frames per second are decimated equivalent to the number of used used for combining Frame Brightness The resulting frame can be lightened up or darkened as this brightness factor is specified Resulting Image Bit Depth Sets how the bit depth of every color channel for output images is determined Force 8 Bit The bit depth is always 8 bit Force 16 Bit The bit depth is always 16 bit No Change The bit depth is the same as of the input image 3 1 5 Section Tasks The main preference page of the tasks section leads to the preference pages of the specific executable task Derotator Axis The derotator at the currently active port is moved one time around to gather position of an star in the image field This is used
74. of view of an used eyepiece or camera Note The step time of an executed spiral is updated immediately but the step width will only be updated if the spiral is freshly started Azimuth Zenith Distance Offset Change Position d 4 Execute Spiral Range to Center 00 00 00 00 Progress for Range 0 00 i4 tual 4 il e Step Time 500 ms Step Width 8 small 00 00 00 10 O large 02 30 00 00 Auxiliary Axis contains only one axis For these the offset can be decreased left reset middle and increased right w Focus Offset Change Position T o a gt Step Width sma Il 0 0010 mm large 5 0000 mm To provide a more flexible way of changing the offset two step widths small and large can be prepared for each section Selecting them is possible in a static way just by choosing the appropriate radio button The step width can also be selected by pressing the Ctrl Key small step or the Alt Key large step releasing the keys will restore the previous static selection Note Altering the offsets applies directly to the instrumental axis By changing them too far the axis can reach soft limits that will trigger an information message 4 9 Pointing Model Control The Pointing Model Control view helps making a pointing model or improve an existing one by adding more measurements GUI FW AsTelOS Manual 579 29 4 Views yy Pointing Model Control
75. on and fill in search constraints that will hopefully include the desired objects Click the Pick a Search Result Check Object Goto Object or Irack Object button to search the catalog and to start an additional action for the found object if desired a If there was more than one object found one of the matching targets can be selected from the dialog that automatically opens Note When using the Pick a Search Result button the selection dialog is shown whenever one or more results are available b Select an object from the list by clicking OK will execute the triggered action again on the specified object e g start the tracking if before Track Object was clicked Note If the search resulted in exactly one result this target is selected and for all other actions beside the Pick a Search Result button the further actions are executed Any problems that might occur are shown within the concluding message box and or the error field of the catalog report section 4 Clicking the Pick a Search Result button will show the selection dialog again allowing to select a different match 96 GUI FW AsTelO0S Manual 579 6 6 Searching within Catalogs 6 6 2 Data Field Types For searching a catalog in a structured but also flexible way there are data fields that have a defined and catalog independent meaning for the data that they contain A specific catalog may suppor
76. osition referencing The axis is trying to find a reference mark referenced The axis has found a reference mark and has therefore precise information about its absolute position Error State shows the reported error of each axis Possible values are working The axis is fully operational ERROR The error state is followed by a raw error code Motion Limit shows if the axis is constrained in their motion Possible values are free The axis is fully operational LIMITED The limited state is followed by a raw error code Motion State shows the reported motion flags for each axis These flags are stopped The axis is not in motion move The axis is moving 8 The paddle is a manual control device directly connected to the telescope It allows moving the telescope axes e g for centering objects in the eye piece It might not be available on every telescope index or zero point search GUI FW AsTelO0S Manual 579 Zi 4 Views trajectory The axis is executing a trajectory accurate The executed trajectory is followed with high precision BLOCKED The axis cannot move AT LIMIT The axis reached its soft limit and is therefore stopped Note There may be more than one flag displayed but some combinations are not occurring e g stopped and move Note Because only the axes and parts that are available at the telescope will be shown not all rows in the status t
77. out it at http www stellarium org wiki index php Telescope_Control Usage Port for listening to Stellarium connections 10000 Time between two position updates ms 500 Stellarium website http stellarium org 18 GUI FW AsTelOS Manual 579 3 5 TPL Preferences Available settings are listening port The port the Stellarium server listens on default 10000 update time The time between position updates that the Stellarium server sends to the connected clients The same interval applies to the checking for new object coordinates received from the Stellarium clients 3 5 TPL Preferences Using these preference pages is explained within section 6 1 1 and 6 1 2 on page 51 3 6 User Interface Elements of the user interface that can be customized are listed under this preference item 3 6 1 Axes Offsets View To show only the axes in the Axes Offsets view section 4 8 that are of interest others can be hidden within this preference page Axes Offsets View br or w Select or hide axes of the Axes Offsets View available entries selected entries Instrumental Instrumental Azimuth Zenith Distance Hour Axis Declination Focus Derotator Filter Dome The different axes are sorted by the category of their coordinate system In the left column the hidden axes and in the right one the shown axes can be found To show or hide one or more axes they have to be selected in the appro
78. p towards image source removed or moved down towards end of the pipeline with the buttons at the right Available processing stages A new stages can be added to the processing pipeline by selection from the drop down list below the pipeline and clicking the button to the right Note Every state could be added only once The processing result and the speed depends highly on what how much stages are added their order and setting See section 6 7 on page 60 about insight in altering the processing pipeline 3 1 3 Section Input Sources The main preference page of the input sources section leads to the preference pages of the specific source It is advised that the output frame rate is set to a frame rate barely above the processing speed of the whole pipeline The pipeline is not overflown but images are ignored if the pipeline is already filled Directory The images of a directory are loaded and presented as input for the pipeline This input source can be used to fine tune the processing pipeline Directory Gv Dv w Settings for the file input provider path to the images home user Browse images per second 5 0 Settings Path to the images contains the path to an existing directory All images bmp png jpg gif are successively loaded as input Note The images should be the same size otherwise the result might be unpredictable behavior images per second the number of images loaded per second and deliv
79. pective see section 5 2 on page 48 and examine the errors within the Telescope Errors section 3 If the presented event indicates no hardware problem e g reaching soft limit of an axis due to adding large offsets Click the Clear and Acknowledge button 4 If the presented event indicates a hardware problem or is persistent occurs again and again report it see section 7 3 Note Acknowledging a persistent problem repeatedly may result in hardware damage 7 2 Telescope not tracking The telescope was ordered to track a target but the Telescope text field within the telescope status panel see section 2 2 on page 8 did not reach the tracking state A similar problem is if the Ielescope state toggles between tracking and slewing 1 Open the Engineering perspective see section 5 2 on page 48 and examine the axes status within the Axes Status view Pay attention to the Motion State column The axes used for the current tracking should show at least the flags trajectory and accurate often in combination with move 2 Check for which tracking axis the accurate flag is not shown while the telescope is slewing Some explanations are common but depend on the axis that is responsible for this misbehavior a Azimuth axis may be to slow if the azimuthal telescope points near the zenith b Derotator axis may be imprecise if the load is very different from that used to tune it 3 If
80. priate column and the upper show or lower hide button between the columns has to be clicked If a bold category descriptor is selected all axes of this category are shown hidden regardless of a selection made to other axes of the same category Shown axes of a category can be sorted in another order with selecting them and clicking one of the two buttons at the at the right border 3 6 2 Axes Positions View To show only the axes in the Axes Positions view section 4 4 that are of interest others can be hidden within this preference page GUI FW AsTelOS Manual 579 19 3 Preferences Axes Positions View Select or hide axes of the Axes Positions View available entries selected entries Instrumental Instrumental Azimuth M3 Zenith Distance Focus Hour Angle Derotator Declination Filter Horizontal Dome Dome Horizontal Equatorial Azimuth Right Ascension Altitude Declination Derotator p Parallactic Angle sd Equatorial Local hs Right Ascension J2000 UT1 Declination J2000 TAI Position Angle Local Sidereal Time UTC Latitude Longitude Height The steps to hide or show one or more specific axes or categories are the same as described in section 3 6 1 3 6 3 Camera View To watch the captured camera frames or the result of the camera pipeline the Camera View can be used What is shown can be set in the preferences dialog described in section 3 1 on page 10 The example image of the c
81. re passes and part of passes that are not sunlit When checked parts of passes are ig nored in the calculation of the duration and set rise times if the satellite is not sunlit Passes that are completely shadowed are ignored at all Tracking mode for found passes explained in the Iwo Line Elements section of the Telescope Target Editing view see section 4 10 on page 37 Track Position the telescope will slew and track the initial position Track Pass Trajectory the telescope will wait at the initial position but follow the satellite on its pass trajectory Initial track altitude The telescope tracks waits at the position where the satellite pass reaches the specified altitude the first time 3 2 2 Sesame The main preference page contains no options but two sub pages allow the configuration of the sesame catalog 16 GUI FW AsTelOS Manual 579 3 3 General Sesame server The primary and additional backup sesame servers in the order they should be used in case of a server failure can be setup here Server py v Select used Database server and the order of their query available entries selected entries Sesame Server Sesame Server Strasbourg France m Boston USA Sesame Database Sesame can retrieve data from different databases NED SIMBAD and VizieR Which of these databases should be used and in what order can be setup here Databases Or oT v Select used Database and the order of their query avai
82. ry accurate Zenith Distance 37 49 59 28 Dome Slit i on i referenced i working i free i accurate Focus i 0 0000 mm Dome Flap i on i referenced i working i free i accurate Derotator Nasmyth 1 i 69 53 45 60 Dome Seal i on i referenced i working i UNKNOWN i UNKNOWN Derotator Nasmyth 2 i 00 00 00 02 Dome Azimuth Dome Slit Dome Flap Dome Seal v Horizontal Name Azimuth Altitude Derotator w Equatorial Name Right Ascension 12000 Declination 2000 Position Angle Parallactic Angle w Local 149 59 59 01 open open UNKNOWN Position 15334959755 52 09 13 88 290 06 14 40 Position 12h 30m 47 99s 12 24 00 18 00 00 00 22 17 43 45 10 48 GUI FW AsTelO0S Manual 579 5 3 Pointing Model The purpose of this perspective is to e Prepare the telescope for operation and shut down see section 6 3 on page 54 e Check the telescope axes if a tracking problem arises see section 7 2 on page 63 5 3 Pointing Model The Pointing Model perspective consist additionally to the basic views of the Axes Offsets view see section 4 6 on page 26 in the left with the Pointing Model Control see section 4 9 on page 29 view in the middle FEY FE Pointing Model Gij Axes Offsets 23 El Pointing Model Control Classic Coefficients 23 A Rada 33 gt gi Telescope 3D EXE Axes Offsets Pointing Model Control Radar Current Axis Offsets Current
83. s Name Address of the Telescope Server localhost Stellarium Server Port on Server 65432 TPL Preferences REID VIE Authentication Username Authentication Password Apply Restore Defaults Cancel e address of the TSI server localhost e service port on the server 65432 e authentication username admin e authentication password admin Note The manual connect and disconnect function is available after acknowledging the input but the auto connect should be enabled too see section 6 1 2 6 1 2 Configure Auto Connect For more persistence and convenience the TPL connection can be automatically monitored 1 Open the preference dialog and expand the TPL Preferences tree 2 Enable the Automatically Connect to the Server checkbox to let AsTelOS GUI au tonomously connect to the TSI service T Preferences x type filter text amp Auto Reconnect br or v General Log Levels Stellarium Server vY TPL Preferences Auto Reconnect Telescope 3D View Settings to automatically Connect or Re Establish the Connection Automatically connect to the Server Settling Time after a Connect Attempt s 15 Time between two Connection Checks s 60 Apply Restore Defaults Cancel 3 Instantly after enabling and acknowledging this setting this feature becomes active 4 For the feature to work it is necessary that the correct connection data is entered see section 6 1 1 on th
84. s tracking at the current position no slewing at the start of the tracking w Derotator Setup Derotator Tracking Mode True Orientation v Filter Setup The currently chosen filter for the selected port can be seen with its specific name and index position if available at all GUI_FW AsTel0S Manual 579 43 4 Views w Filter Setup Used Filter None Available Select another Alter Another filter can be chosen by clicking the Select another Filter button the filter selection dialog is opened Target Options Select the used Filter from the List a 147 Name i Not Set Not Set Not Set Not Set Not Set Not Set i Not Set Not Set Not Set i Not Set Not Set Not Set 0 3 ciu AUN Ff Rees HE HH v N PO Note The Telescope Target Editing view will show this selection dialog if an invalid filter setting was found see section 4 10 on page 37 Dome Setup Enter the maximum position deviation and offset of the dome as well as a the specific dome behavior Off the dome will not be used Custom Offset as fixed Position the entered offset will be used as the dome position Discrete Movement the dome will be moved if the deviation between current and target position exceeds the given maximum deviation Discrete Movement with custom Offset as above additionally with the entered offset Continuous Movement the dome will be moved ste
85. sTel0S Manual 579 4 6 Axes Status Paddle shows the current state and settings done at the paddle This includes Is Active reports the state of the paddle enabled disabled Operation Mode reports the external mode of the paddle enabled dis abled Brightness reports the button backlight brightness of the paddle This varies between 0 and 1 Selected Speed reports the selected speed setting of the speed rotary knob This varies between 0 and 1 Selection Number reports the paddle axis selection number Selection Name reports a description of the axis selection number above Sensors The table contains the available sensors with their specific name current value and their associated unit Switches A switch is similar to a sensor but can be set to a desired value Status of all available Axes show a detailed status of the available telescope axes The columns contain information about Axis Name with the name of the axis Power State shows the current power situation of the axis Possible values are off The axis is not powered and therefore cannot move transitioning The power state for the axis is changing on The axis is powered up and theoretically movable see the other states Reference State shows the state of the referencing for each axis Possible values are not referenced The axis has no knowledge about its absolute p
86. st Available Result Name Right Ascension Declination Magnitude NGC 3992 11h 57m 36 005 53 23 00 00 9 80 M 109 11h 57m 36 008 53 23 00 00 9 80 NGC 4258 12h 19m 00 00s 47 18 00 00 8 30 M 106 12h 19m 00 00s 47 18 00 00 8 30 Details of the Selection Parameter Name Parameter Value Name of the Object i NGC 3992 Right Ascension h l 11h 57m 36 00s Declination 53 23 00 00 Equinox Julian years 2000 00 Diameter of the Object 7 60 Unspecified Magnitude mag 9 80 Search range from RA Dec Position i 03 24 13 25 The head elements of the table with the search results can be clicked to sort the rows by this field in ascending descending order e More detailed explanations can be found in section 6 6 on page 56 Additional Configuration attaches a specific set of additional target options to the selected target The default option set is selected at first but also another set may be selected from the combo box A shortcut to edit the selected options set is provided with clicking the Change the Dataset button The Telescope Target Options view with the selected options set is opened see section 4 11 on page 42 Execute Entered Data contains two lines with buttons 1 The first row includes Check Object triggers sending the target and options data to the telescope and generates a check report or error message Note When checking a target the
87. st additionally to the basic views of the Cabinet view see section 4 5 on page 25 in the left with the Axes Status see section 4 6 on page 26 and Resource Client Traffic see section 4 7 on page 28 views in the middle ES E Engineering P Cabinet X O 5 Axes Status X N Resource Client Traffic C EQ Radar X gt G Telescope 3D Ez Cabinet Axes Status Radar Power Auxiliary Parts XN State SA w Cover Switch On Off Cover Position closed Open Close v Events v Sensors System Overview Name Value Unit E Ww System Event State M1 i 9 973 Numeric DRIVES INFO M2 i 9 046 Numeric e SYSTEM none M3 8 534 Numeric AUXILIARY i none Nasmythl i 7 755 Numeric UNKNOWN none Nasmyth2 8 005 Numeric i i Event il vent Details Status of all available Axes 6 Componeni Message Details F p Par n Wi Axes TIES i i Axis Name Power State Reference State Error State Motion Limit Motion State AZ DRIVES ERR Soft Limit rm z i i as iti e i A Azimuth on i referenced working i free i trajectory accurate Axes Positions Acknowledge Evental Zenith Distance l on E referenced working E free trajectory accurate vassimental Focus on referenced i working free accurate Derotator Nasmyth 1 on i referenced i working i free i trajectory accurate Hame nanman Derotator Nasmyth 2 on i referenced i working i free i accurate Azimuth 153 45 55 75 Dome Azimuth i on i referenced i working i free i trajecto
88. surements added with this wizard run Number of calculated Samples The number of calculated density samples per degree Note Should only be increased in case of lots of measurements already taken it has a large performance influence Luminance Constraint set the limits for the weakest and brightest objects that should be selected as a measurement position Altitude Constraint set the limits for the lowest and highest measurement positions Note These limits might be slightly left when searching for a suitable target near the ideal measurement position 34 GUI FW AsTelOS Manual 579 4 9 Pointing Model Control Target Constraint gives limits when searching for a suitable measurement targets Search Distance maximal distance of a target around the calculated measurement position Distance Zones number of equally spaced zones around the measurement position to iterative find the nearest but also suitable measurement target Used Object Catalog the catalog to select the measurement targets from Note If no catalog is available the wizard cannot be used Used Target Options the target options to use for slewing to selected measurement targets Note If selected target options contain incomplete information about the used port or filter corresponding dialogs are shown as described in section 4 11 Centering modes When the target object is reached and the telescope is tracking it has to
89. t only a subset of these data fields for input but may also support more of them in the output To ease handling the data fields are of a specific type that restricts the input of free text Free Text T All typeable characters are accepted Integer I Only numbers are accepted Floating Point F Numbers with fraction are allowed Floating Point Range R In this field a range of allowed floating point values can be defined The minimum and maximum is separated by a semicolon n open end can be defined by omitting the part before or after the separator For all data fields applies that an empty field is ignored And even if the typed input values are accepted by the input field itself they might be limited further by the catalog Hitting these limits will be reported at least by a subsequent message box 6 6 3 Data Fields Below is a list of the currently defined data fields As new catalogs get supported this list may be extended in future versions Since different catalogs include different data fields they usually will support only a subset of these data fields The field type of the data field is given in parenthesis Object Name T the catalog specific name for an object Object Type T the catalog specific type of an object Altitude F the Altitude position in degrees as described in section 6 2 Azimuth F the Azimuth position in degrees as described in section 6 2 Right Ascension F the RA position in
90. ted Targets 1 10 E Successful Targets 0 10 Object Name Error Errors H E 0 ys 3927 1603 1 Wizard Cancelled Displayed information here is Executed Targets with the number of the targets that were started to be taken Successful Targets with the number of measurements successfully added Errors table contains an overview over the started targets with the cause of their failure if any 4 10 Telescope Target Editing The Telescope Target Editing view provides the interface to choose an object or enter the target parameter data using different coordinate systems E Telescope Target Editing 3 f Target Editing Enter Data gt Instrumental Position gt Horizontal Position gt Equatorial Position Elements Object Two Line Elements Solar System Object Catalog Object Additional Configuration Choose Configuration Dataset default v Change the Dataset Execute Entered Data Manage Tracking Check Object Goto Object Track Object Stop Tracking Update while Tracking Filter Wheel Position Focus Position Derotator Position Dome Position Last Check Report Reported Error Name Value Note It is possible to open more than one Telescope Target Editing view to prepare different targets The widgets in this view are separated into four groups Enter Data contains the different target types Instrumental Position contains input fields for the name of the ob
91. telescope is not moved nor any activity that is currently executed is interrupted Goto Object additionally to checking the telescope is moved to the target position if it is possible to do so Track Object additionally to go to the telescope starts tracking Stop Tracking stops an ongoing tracking no update of the check report Notes e If the port or filter settings in the chosen configuration dataset is invalid the specific selection dialog of the Telescope Target Options view see section 4 11 on page 42 is shown e The slewing of the telescope to a target object is visualized with a dialog It shows the progress as the convergence between the current telescope position and the target position Tracking Request Sent Q Slewing Always run in background Cancel Details gt gt Run in Background 15 Does not apply to the Stop Tracking button 40 GUI FW AsTelOS Manual 579 4 10 Telescope Target Editing The Dialog can be cancelled When doing so AsTelOS GUI will try to stop the telescope 2 The second row of buttons updates filter wheel focus derotator dome positions These are taken from the options set but only if the telescope is currently tracking and the positions are not determined automatically Last Check Report concentrates information about the entered target as a check report Last Check Report Name Value Object Type Catalogue Name NGC 204 Azimuth
92. this behavior is unexplainable or should be corrected report it see section 7 3 7 3 Reporting a Failure If AsTelOS GUI has undergone a failure or the software hardware did not work as expected follow these steps if possible This will be helpful for the investigation 1 Within AsTelOS GUI click the Log Report button see section 2 2 on page 8 2 Fill in the description field a what was done b what happened c what was expected GUI_FW AsTel0S Manual 579 63 7 Trouble Shooting 3 Select the time span for that data from the log files should be integrated in the report snapshot make sure that this goes back to at least a little before the moment the problem occurred while keeping in mind that a too long snapshot could make it difficult to find the moment of failure 4 Set the location and name of the created snapshot file if needed Remember the path 5 Optional Check if the suspicious behavior can be reproduced Make a note about the trials within the description field 6 Optional If the behavior can be reproduced Is it present if AsTelOS GUI is restarted The TSI service The telescope control cabinet 7 Optional Check within the Error Log view if there were events reported that happened at the time of the failure see section 4 15 on page 46 8 Contact the manufacturer and send the created snapshot file s If AsTelOS GUI is not functioning or other problems
93. to calculate the rotation center Derotator Axis Or yr v Settings for the automatic derotator center detection job Update the target centering preferences Settings Update the target centering preferences If the rotation center could be calculated successfully the preferences of the target centering job see next paragraph can be updated with this information 14 GUI_FW AsTel0S Manual 579 3 1 Camera Save Frames To save a number of frame some settings can be customized Save Frames br w Settings for the frame save task Frame type 2 raw processed Number of frames 100 File type 9 png jpg bmp Directory for files home majo Browse Settings Frame type Using the raw input the saved imaged are not changed and can be used for replay Directory as input source The processed version is the result from the processing pipeline and can be used e g for documentary purposes Number of frames The number of frames that are captured by one capture task Note The capture task can be aborted File type The type the image is saved as These can be png lossless compression jpg com pression with 100 quality and bmp uncompressed files Directory for files The directory where the data are saved to The files are stored to a sub directory named after the Unix time milliseconds since midnight 01 01 1970 UT of the start time The files itself are named with increasing numbers
94. urement if not done with the input of the current target Click the Add New button Proceed with 1 until enough measurements have been done If the measurements are done they can and should be saved If doing many measurements it is strongly recommended to save regularly A meaningful filename has to be typed in and noted for the file With clicking Save Measurements the measurements are saved into that file on the T SI server Choose a pointing model classic or extended by expanding the appropriate section within the Pointing Model Control view Note The minimum count of measurements that should be used is roughly equal to the count of coefficients the selected pointing model has 6 5 Track Target Tracking a celestial target requires a useable pointing model see section 5 3 on page 49 Intended for choosing and slewing to such targets is the Object Tracking perspective see section 5 4 on page 49 1 Open the Object Tracking perspective 2 In the Telescope Target Editing view the data of the destined target can be entered using an appropriate section Note Let this section stay expanded as this will indicate AsTelOS GUI which position or object type to use In the Telescope Target Editing view choose the data set with the additionally target options If there is not an appropriate set available GUI FW AsTelOS Manual 579 55 6 How To a Select a data set
95. ve defines a set of shown views and their locations view A view can be understood as a sub window that concentrates GUI widgets for a specific purpose e g display status trigger action Views are characterized by their tabs atop By clicking and holding the tab they can be moved around and rearranged to modify the perspective status line offers a place e g to indicate the common state of AsTelOS GUI fast view field Show a dialog to open an available view that is floating above the work bench telescope status Present the condensed state of the telescope see section 2 2 on page 8 progress indicator The execution of an internal job is indicated within this area Double clicking into this area opens the Progress view see section 4 14 on page 46 that informs about running jobs Note The term job denotes in this document an internal structure to provide extended management functionality to concurrent processing tasks Other GUI terms partly already mentioned above dialog is a modal window above the program window probably blocking interaction with it message box is a modal window that shows an information or requests guidance by the user e g through YES NO CANCEL buttons graphical user interface 6 GUI FW AsTelOS Manual 579 widget is a simple GUI element as illustrated in the following image Application Push Button Radio
96. ved Any storage duplication reproduction translation or forwarding even in excerpts is only permissible with our written authorisation AsTel0S Manual lyx 579 2011 07 08 16 29 22Z saemisch Contents Contents 1 Terminology 2 Generic Elements 2 1 4 2 2 3 2 4 Splash Screen 2 2 clle Telescope Status Status Line QUIE cur oa i eros as 3 Preferences Bub AAN seet ae eS x hee up sce x GA Sl DUGIG ss sre exce dew ns 31 2 Page LAMA o9 9x Gade o6 daw X d 3 1 3 Section Input Sources 3 1 4 Section Processing Stages 3 1 5 Section Tasks xS cho TP 3 241 Heavens Above lll T4 E 3 3 General 25329 ooo ooo momo o9 VOY 9 oho cus mol Log levels sss ooo qvomodo e od od Stellarium Server 29 pae 6 o9 yox X03 330 x Y 5 3 0 TPL Preferences ln aD User Merce 62359 x p99 ox 3 3o amp ex 9 vox s 3 6 1 Axes Offsets View 3 6 2 Axes Positions View 3 6 3 Camera View 446 ow om ow om ewe Ros 3 6 4 Telescope 3D View rs 4 Views 4 1 Handling Views cass 4 ook ud RO A we ER Go eS A2 VO ss sio ee ey EEE ee OE HE 4 3 Telescope 3D coser AAA AA Axes Positions i i 99 9 Rom moon ZB Se barge eh oh a 4 9o 2 X ee EX ee AG Axes DUEB uo 6o RR ox wo EH go go EROS Ee cn amp YX 4 7 Resource Client Traffic 48 AxesOffsets 222

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