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  23 Mar 2023
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NTT Operations

This web page contains information required by the technical staff to OPERATE the NTT. Consult the News and Recovery pages at the beginning of every turno to know what has been modified.

News and Recovery Procedures

  • NEWS
  • Recovery Procedures

General Operations

  • Day Operations
  • Night Operations
  • SOFI Operations
  • MOS Operations
  • MOS Data Collection Procedure
  • EFOSC2 Operations
  • ASM (ex-DIMM) Operations
  • La Silla All Sky Camera documentations
  • Astronomy Operations
  • Technical reports and actions
  • Reporting Procedures
  • Ultracam Pictures

Tools

  • Statistics and evolution
  • Monitoring Metrics
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  • DUT

Forms

  • SciOps Coordinator Daily Activities
  • NTT TCS OSF StartUp
  • GENERAL CHECK LIST FORM (postscript)
  • Weekly Sciops WS ReBoot (pdf)
  • Startup Check List Form (postscript)
  • Shutdown Check List Form (postscript)

Reference Data and Manuals

  • Documentation
  • NTT pointing model in a shell
  • How to Generate the ONECAL look-up Table (PDF)
  • Phone Directory
  • Reference Data
  • Startup
  • Remedy Access (ARWeb)
  • Get all SCIOPS, NTT, 3P6 and MET documents registered in Remedy

Optomechanical Maintenance

  • Spare parts exchanges and calibrations

Schedule

  • Observation Schedule - Query Form
  • La Silla Paranal Observatory Schedule (ESO Intranet)

Safety

  • Safety procedures

Search NTT Operations

  • Search Engine for NTT Operations

Maintenance Plan

  • Maint Plan NTT
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