Sloan Digital Sky Survey
2.5-meter Telescope Procedures
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Contents

• 2.5-m Telescope
• Controls and Interlocks
• Engineering Camera
• Maintenance
• Mosaic Camera
• Optics
• Site/Enclosure
• Spectroscopic Systems

2.5-m Telescope

OP-99011   Aligning Heidenhain Encoders
OP-010301 Emergency close
OP-010403 Observer's Folklore/Hints
OP-040601 Removal of M2 Truss
OP-010805 Remove Wind Baffle
OP-020303 Install M2 Truss
OP-020304 Install Wind Baffle
OP-020501 Use Emergency Generator for Enclosure and Wind Baffle
OP-021002 Oxygen Deficiency Hazard Procedures

Controls and Interlocks

OP-010304 Using the TPM
OP-010901 Bypass Interlocks
OP-010903 Bypass Enclosure Interlock
OP-020801 M2 Galil (under construction)
OP-020802 M1 Galil (under construction)

Engineering Camera

OP-010401 Observer's Folkore/Hints

Maintenance

Engineering and Shutdown Reports (includes Bright Time and Shutdown summaries)
2.5m Telescope Maintenance Schedule
OP-011002 Changing Desiccant Canister for PT Dome Louvres
OP-011001 Changing Desiccant Canister for 2.5m PMSS
OP-010902 Clean Shuttle Air Valve - Air System
OP-010906 Cleaning Fiducials and Drive Surfaces

Mosaic (Imager) Camera

OP-010405 Observer's Installation and Removal

Optics

OP-010502 Alloy Ring Installation on M2
OP-010801 PT M1 Removal
OP-040602 Remove 2.5m M1
OP-040603 Remove 2.5m M2
OP-020301 Install 2.5m M1
OP-020302 Install 2.5m M2
OP-021001 M1 thermal Sensors (under construction)
OP-030701 M1 Collimation
OP-030702 M2 Collimation

Site/Enclosure

OP-010302 Open Enclosure
OP-010304 Close
OP-010404 Observer's Folklore/Hints
OP-010406 Operate the Outside Manipulator Arm
OP-010411 Operate Cartridge Exterior Elevator Bay Doors and Elevator
OP-010504 Site-wide and SDSS Air System
OP-040901 Operate Thermo King Cooler

Spectroscopic Systems

Unusable Science Fibers
OP-010407 Remove or Mount Plate in Cartridge
OP-010408 Plate Plugging
OP-010409 Mapping Station
OP-010410 Plate Inventory
OP-010402 Observer's Folklore/Hints
OP-010406 Operate the Inside Manipulator Arm
OP-010411 Operate Cartridge Interior Elevator Bay Doors and Elevator
OP-010501 Testing Optic Fibers with Boroscope
OP-011101 Installing Fiber Optic Ferrules for Guide Fibers

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