Telescope Shutdown

• From the Tele Tasks Menu on irtcs, select Stow Tele. This will turn off the track, move the telescope to zenith and stow the dome.
• When the telsecope has stopped moving, select Exit to stop irtcs.
• Shut off (down position) the silver Drive Power switch.
• Next (Only at Zenith!!) flip the Mirror Cover switch to closed, and wait for the doors to close.
• (Skip: Close the dark slide on the camera. As of 1998 February, we are recommending that the dark slide remain open at all times. This will help the airflow keep the window clean.)
• Turn off the dome fan.
• To close dome slit, press the Close switch on the wall, twice if needed.
• Turn off TV camera high voltage. (Leave TV camera power on.) Turn off monitor and cursor box in control room.

The following are usually optional but are mandatory in lightning season:

• Shut off the TCS-PC power switch.
• Shut off the Main Power switch on the Rack.

Camera Shutdown

• Stop the camera system by typing die in the dark window on stelircam. This should automatically kill all the auxiliary windows.
• Before storing your data, it's a good idea to make an ASCII log file. Go (cd) to the night's data directory. The command now is an alias that will change to the current data directory. Once there, type makelog. This takes a while, but it makes a file called allfiles.log. This is simply a list of all data files, one per line, with a few key parameters from each FITS header.
• To store your data, put a DAT into the drive (/dev/nrst0) on flwo48. Then simply type backup on stelircam (this backs up the primary data directory /data/data -- if, because of problems, you have used /data, the backup data directory, then you must use backup_data). If you like, you can combine the makelog and backup commands on one line separated by a semi-colon. Don't forget to cd to the data directory first, though, for makelog to work. Backup makes a tar file of all of /data/data, regardless of what directory you are in.
The upshot of all this is that the command now;makelog;backup should do everything you want.

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