Running Cshell - Observers Instructions

These procedures are for running cshell at the summit and remotely. To run cshell, you will need:

1. Create your guest account (optional).
2. Have the IRTF staff create the cshell VNC session & start the software.
3. Run the VNC Viewer

1. Create you guest account
Instruction for creating guest accounts are located here: Guest Accounts

2. Have the IRTF Staff create the cshell VNC session & start the software
Contact the IRTF Telescope Operators or DayCrew and have them start a VNC session for you. They will give you the server display number N, use this number to access your VNC sesssion, for example N=1, "stefan.ifa.hawaii.edu:1". The staff should also start the cshell GUI for you.

3. Start the VNC Viewer
On the IRTF workstation, type of following command. (This example assumes you display number is 1 )

> vncviewer stefan.ifa.hawaii.edu:1

Details on VNC operations for observers at the IRTF is found here: Using VNC with the IRTF