TCS3 Misc Documents
0. Copies of seleceted Jim Hardware documents:
Serial communication link document as
PS: (PS)
PDF: (PDF)
Jim Hardwood's TCS1 Documents are here: TCS1 Home
1. slalib documentation.
Html: slalib 2.4-2 2000 jan (html)
PDFs: slalib 2.4-12 2003 mar (pdf)
PDFs: slalib 2.4-12 2003 mar [4 pages per shee](pdf)
PDFs: slalib 2.4-12 2003 mar (ps)
2. COCO Manuals: coco_v2.2-3.pdf and coco_v2.2-3.ps.
3. Paper "Proposal for Keck Telescope Pointing Algorithms, P.T.Wallace. 22nd December 1994"
as keck.ps or keck.pdf.
Good primer on using slalib to build a TCS.
4. Conversion tables between: arcsec, degree, hour
5. IRTF Only TCS3 Docs
6. About..basic info on tcs3 related subject.
Information about time standards: time.doc or time.pdf
motor_basics.pdf from www.baldor.com
Vendor paper provides a dew point estimate using relative humidity and temperature:
Dewpoint_Calculation_Humidity_Sensor_E.pdf
7. Tachometer Replacement Report (2008/07).
IRTF_TCS_Tachometer_Replacement.doc Tachometer Replacement Report (doc).
IRTF_TCS_Tachometer_Replacement.pdf Tachometer Replacement Report (pdf).
Tachometer_Replacement.xmcd Calculations (mathcad).
Tachometer_Replacement.pdf Calculations (pdf).
8. CFTH Dome Servoe Upgrade Documents (2012/05).
In Q1-2012 the IRTF worked on upgrading it dome servo system. The vendor (Baldor) was choose
partly becasue CHFT used baldor. CFHT provide the following document for us to review.
CFHT/Dome_drive_upgrade