OBSERVER'S GUIDE TO THE AUTOMATED PATROL TELESCOPE

Michael Ashley, Col Bembrick, Brad Carter, Peter Mitchell.

Department of Astrophysics & Optics, School of Physics
The University of New South Wales
Sydney 2052 Australia

Version: 07 April 1996 (the previous version was 04 February 1996)

If you find any errors in this document, or have suggestions for improvements, please send them to Michael Ashley at mcba@newt.phys.unsw.edu.au. Additional information about the APT, including the most recent version of this guide, is available on the World Wide Webb with URL http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~ mcba/apt.html.

• Contents
• Starting the APT system
• The workstation
• Extensible Remote Instrument Control-ERIC
• Commonly used observing commands
• Miscellaneous useful information
• Archiving data
• Shutdown procedure for the APT
• FITS header
• APT specifications
• Troubleshooting and known bugs
• Things that need doing
• Scientific highlights
• Changes to the APT
• About this document ...