Doing a Grid Test In MOP

1. Point to the desired field. If the observer has just observed a suitable field, there is no need to do anything. Otherwise, point to the field using the command line in MOP or the telescope control GUI. From the command line, one may issue the following commands:

   mt> nextTarget targetName
   mt> dfmSlew
   

2. Take the grid test. The appropriate command is NxN, and more detailed help on the options may be obtained using

   mt> NxN -help

   To take a typical grid test, use the following command:

   mt> NxN 3 g 10 -readout -informGUI

   This will take a 3x3 grid of 10 second exposures in g, reading out after each exposure, adding appropriate information to the log.

3. Grid Test Analysis (All source programs are in /usr/local/gridtest on pt1).
   1. The grid frames are processed by mtpipe, then the fits tables (mtObj-000XXXXX.fit) from mtpipe are converted into ASCII tables (*.dat) using a Tcl code (mtObj2Ascii.tcl) provided by Douglas Tucker
   2. Enter the command '.run /usr/local/gridtest/circle /usr/local/gridtest/gridtest' at the idl prompt, then type 'gridtest'

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