A Short User's Summary of Bench Monsoon Procedures
                           4-15-08

I. Abbreviations
  MOP - Monsoon Observing Platform
  GUI - Graphial User Interface
  PAN - Pixel Acquisition Node
  MCC - Monsoon Camera Control

II. Startup
  1. Login: observer
  2. Password: standard WIYN password. An X11 window will appear.
  3. Start the PAN by double-clicking on the "Start benchPan" icon. Five windows
     will appear:
       a. Shell - Start benchPan
       b. Pan Capture
       c. Pan Daemon
       d. Pan Process Algorithims
       e. Pan Server
     These can all be iconified.
  2. Start the MOP by double-clicking on the "Start MOP" icon. Three windows will appear
     and also momentarily an "initializing camera" banner:
       a. Start MOP-bench
       b. DS9
       c. MOP debug log
     One can also use the shell window and start an "xgterm &" for IRAF use. Start the
     "cl" in the home directory where the login.cl file exists.
  
III. Observing
  1. Set the data directory if something different than the default is desired.
     Create a directory by clicking the directory button on the MCC GUI and type the desired
     new directory in the "selection" box.
  2. Select the gain with the "Gain" button on the MCC GUI.
  3. Select the desired binning with the "Bin" menu button on the MCC GUI.
  4. Set the Exposure type, Number of Frames, and Exposure time on the MCC GUI.
  5. Enter the image file name and number. Subsequent images will be incremented
     automatically if desired.
  6. Click the "Observe" button on the MCC GUI.
  7. Comments can be typed into the "Comments" field before or during the integration.
  8. The read out data will be displayed in the DS9 image display window. Standard
     IRAF tasks can be used to plot and examine data.
  
IV. Troubleshooting
  1. If error messages appear in the MOP debug log window, pull down the PAN menu
     on the MCC GUI and select "Reset PAN". If the reset is successful as indicated
     in the MOP debug log, continue operations. If not, try resetting again.
  
     If the reset fails, exit the MOP with the MCC File menu button and double click
     the "clear PAN" button. Then restart the MOP.
  
V. Software Shutdown
  On the MCC GUI "File" menu, select either:
     1. Exit - closes the MOP interface
     2. Exit and shutdown PAN - closes the MOP interface and shuts down the PAN. 
  
VI. Miscellaneous
  1. WIFOE GUI startup: 
     On almond, SSH vanilla
     cd /usr/local/wifoe
     ./start-wifoegui
  
  2. Bench GUI startup:
     In oatmeal VNCserver on almond (oatmeal:2), start up GUI from bench icon.

  3. For remote observing start the vncviewer on cork with "vncviewer -shared cork:1"