THE AUTOMATED CCD LOG

Note: Only logs images written to FITS format.

To start the autolog program:

Start an xterm or xgterm using the background menu You must start the program from within the directory data is being taken from (e.g. /data1/wiyn_ccd/night1). On sand type: /usr/local/gui/bin/autolog On vanilla type: /usr/local/gui/bin/autolog This will bring up the CCD Autolog Control Panel shown right. In the "image directory" box, you will need to type in the full path to your working directory of your Data Acquisition window (e.g. /data1/wiyn_ccd/night1). Select which instrument you are using. Click on Start Logging. Images will only be written to the log after selecting Start Logging.

The images (.fits images only) are written to the log after the exposure has readout. An example log is show below. Every time an image is logged, the log page is written to a postscript file and saved. These files are stored in the same directory as your images and are called autolog_page1.ps, etc. Each page is then printed when it is full. One nice feature of this log is that you can type virtually anywhere within the log - you can edit any field or add comments wherever you like.

Note:Image root names that contain a period will not show up correctly in the log (e.g. n001.0002.fits). To avoid this, make sure your image root names do not contain periods.

Note:Test images and focus sequences will show up on the log with a sequence number of zero.

Last updated February 17, 2004