Michael Pahre, Roy Gal, and Jeff Hickey (Caltech)
Please also look at an excellent cosmic write up by Jason Surace Introduction Direct Imaging Mode Reimaged Mode CCD Characteristics Starting Up the COSMIC Instrument Control Window Starting COSMIC Inserting the Appropriate Filter, Aperture, and Grism Names An overview of the control GUIs Filters Standard Filters Installing Your Own Filters Focus Focusing The CCD Focusing The Guider Focusing the Spectrograph The Aperture Masks Description Mounting a Photographic Slitmask Onto a Holder Installation The Grism Wheel Flat-field and Arc Lamps Orientation of COSMIC The Offset Guider Finding a Guide Star Guiding on a Star Important Warning About the COSMIC Guider Observing with Longslits Determining the Position of the Slit Placing an Object Onto the Slit Making Multislit Masks Introduction Preparing Your Object List for the Multislit Program Having the Photographic Masks Made Observing with Multislit Masks on COSMIC Preparatory Work in the Afternoon Procedure for Aligning the Multislit Mask Direct Imaging with COSMIC at the Palomar 60-inch Telescope Warnings About COSMIC About this document ... Jeff Hickey, major revisions 6/20/08
