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Optical pointing is done using the MNU program, and the DCL commands CRE
(CREate the data file), SAV (SAVe telescope coordinates in the data file),
CAT (select a star from the star CATalog), and PLA (select a PLAnet), or
using the automatic searching mode of MNU. Please refer to the document
``Foreign Commands'' by A. Perrigouard for a complete description of these
commands.
Two different approaches can be used for the optical pointing, depending
whether you have an idea of the pointing parameters or not.
- First, make a crude optical pointing with a few stars, 5-8 at low and
3-6 at high elevations, with good azimuth coverage. The accuracy need not
be very good (). Then, use the newly determined pointing constants to
make a more accurate pointing session with 40 to 60 stars. All stars
should be rather well centered already , and now the centering accuracy
can be made better (). Uniform coverage is not required: most
important is to have low and high elevation sources.
- Or use only a single pass with 60 stars centered within . This
can take somewhat longer because the stars may be far off center.
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2014-07-01