NSFCAM USER'S GUIDE
                              TABLE OF CONTENTS

   0.1  Brief Description of the Instrument
   0.2  Crib Sheet for Basic Observing and Instrument Checkout

Chapter  1  ObserversU Computer Accounts
   1.1  Setting Up Your Guest Account
   1.2  Creating a Source List
   1.3  Where to Put Your Data
   1.4  Data Archiving

Chapter  2  Restarting the Instrument (normally not required)
   2.1  Terminology
   2.2  Killing the Instrument Computer
   2.3  Starting up the Instrument Computer

Chapter  3  Starting up the Applications and Log Files
   3.1  X-Windows
   3.2  User Interface: XUI
   3.3  Image Display: ViewFits
   3.4  Observing/XUI/Temperature Logs

Chapter  4  XUI Setup Window
   4.1  Information for FITS Header
   4.2  Programmable Voltages
   4.3  Non-Destructive Reads (NDR) and Read Noise
   4.4  Readout Modes, Integration, Data Numbers

Chapter  5  Using the Camera: XUI Observing Window
   5.1  The Icons
      5.1.1  Waveplate Polarizer
      5.1.2  Dichroic
      5.1.3  Lens (& Grism Slit & Coronograph Masks)
      5.1.4  Filter
         5.1.4.1 Filter and CVF Wheels
         5.1.4.2 Grism Spectroscopy
      5.1.5  Array (and Subarrays)
   5.2  Saving Data and Data Pathnames
   5.3  Information for the FITS Header
   5.4  Object and Sky Beams
   5.5  Integration Times, Coadds, Cycles
   5.6  Shift & Add7
   5.6.1  Procedure
   5.6.2  Output Files
   5.6.3  Viewing Utilities
   5.7  Movie Modes - Rapid Data Sampling
      5.7.1  Movie Mode
      5.7.2  MovieBurst Mode

Chapter  6  ViewFits
   6.1  Default Operation and Mouse Control
   6.2  Different Display Modes
   6.3  Mathematical Operations
   6.4  Stats Frame (and use for Shift & Add)
   6.5  Telescope Offsetting
   6.6  Reading and Saving Images

Chapter  7  Instrument Setup and Sensitivity
   7.1  Start of Night: Dark Current Check
   7.2  Focus
   7.3  Instrument Sensitivity

Chapter  8  Target Acquisition and Off-Axis Guiding

Chapter  9  Calibrations
   9.1 Non-Linearity
   9.2 Standard Stars  and Photometric Color Transformations
   9.3 Flat Fields

Chapter 10  XUI Macros

Chapter 11  Known Limitations and Common Problems

Chapter 12  End of Night Procedures

Chapter 13  Dictionary of Commands

Chapter 14  Appendices
   14.1  NSFCAM Data FITS Headers
   14.2  Accurate Time Calibration
   14.3  Diagrams of the Cryostat and Camera Optics
   14.4  Optical Port and Focus Positions
   14.5  Temperature Controller, Closed Cycle Cooler
   14.6  Recent Software Changes
   14.7  Environment Variables, Initialization Files
      14.7.1 Moving the IC Between the Summit & Manoa
   14.8  Motor Detent Positions
   14.9  Rackmount Setup
TABLES AND FIGURES

TABLES

Table   4.1  Examples of VDET Settings
Table   4.2  Minimum Integration Time for Array Reset Double Sample Readout
Table   5.1  Dichroic Positions
Table   5.2  Lens Positions
Table   5.3  CVF Index and Step Posiotns
Table   5.4  Relationships for CVF l to Step Position
Table   5.5  Filter Index and Step Positions
Table   5.6  Overhead Time per Basic or Movie Image
Table   7.1  Typical Focus Position
Table   7.2  Instrument Sensitivity
Table   9.1  Maximum Counts for Data Linearityk
Table   9.2  Photometric Zeropoints
Table   9.3  Integration Times for Standard Stars
Table 14.1  Dichroic, Lens, Filter and CVF Detent Positions
Table 14.2  Ethernet Card Setup
Table 14.3  DSP Boards Information
Table 14.4  DSP Boards Configuration
Table 14.5  PC-38 Stepper Motor Board Configuration


FIGURES

Figure   4.1  XUI Observing Parameters Setup Window
Figure   5.1  XUI Observing Parameters Window for Basic Mode
Figure   5.2  Dichroic Turret
Figure   5.3  Lens Turret
Figure   5.4  Filter Wheel
Figure   5.5  CVF Wheel
Figure   5.6  XUI Observing Parameters Window for ShiftAdd2 Mode
Figure   5.7  XUI Observing Parameters Window  for Movie Mode
Figure   9.1  Example of K-Band Flat-Field Image
Figure 14.1  Example of NSFCAM FITS Header
Figure 14.2  Cryostat
Figure 14.3  Lens Assemblies