Table of Contents

1 Telescope_system_commands

1.1 INTRODUCTION

1.1.1 Notation used in this manual
1.1.2 Introduction to VAX
1.1.3 Introduction to Telescope System

1.2 COMMAND QUEUEING

1.3 COMMAND DESCRIPTIONS

APERTURE
    APERTURE/CALIBRATE
      Calibration Sequence
    APERTURE/CLEAR
    APERTURE/DEFINE
    APERTURE/HERE
    APERTURE/SHOW
CALIBRATE APERTURE
      Calibration Sequence
CALIBRATE POINTING
    CALIBRATE POINTING/SHOW
CFILE
CONFIGURE
DIAGNOSE
DISPLAY
    DISPLAY/SHOW
ENLIST
FAULTS
FOCUS
    FOCUS/SHOW
HALT
HELP
HORIZON
IGNORE
METSYS
NOTE
OFFSET
    OFFSET/GO
    OFFSET/SHOW
    OFFSET/STEPSIZE
PARK
PLANET
PUSHBUTTON
    PUSHBUTTON/SHOW
RATE
    RATE/SHOW
ROTATOR
SCAN
SHUTDOWN
SLEW
STARTUP
      Startup Command File
SWITCH
TPDATA
TRACK
    TRACK/SAVE
    TRACK/SHOW
    TRACK/PRINT
UPDATE
VIEW
ZENITH

2 Celestial Coordinates

2.1 SPECIFICATION OF COORDINATES

2.1.1 Object Name
2.1.2 Right Ascension
2.1.3 Declination
2.1.4 Equinox
2.1.5 Epoch
2.1.6 Proper Motion
2.1.7 Parallax
2.1.8 Radial Velocity
2.1.9 Comment Field
2.1.10 Field Delimiters
2.1.11 Auxiliary Data Records
2.1.12 Continuation of a Command Line

2.2 COORDINATE TRANSFORMS

2.2.1 Equatorial Coordinate Systems
2.2.2 File Coordinates

Figure 2-1
Figure 2_2

2.2.3 Base Coordinates
2.2.4 Tracking Coordinates
2.2.5 The Distinction between Equinox and Epoch
2.2.6 E-Terms (FK4)
2.2.7 Transformation between FK4 and FK5

2.3 COORDINATE FILES

2.3.1 Format of Coordinate Files
2.3.2 Comment Records
2.3.3 Auxiliary Data Records

2.4 EPHEMERIS FILES

3 Glossary