P3.13 Center the slit

• Phase : 3
• Status : Draft
• Category : Nighttime testing (functionality and operability) (C4)
• Recurrence : once at commissioning
• Duration : 4 hours

Description

• This activity will center the long slit.

Prerequisites

• Atmospheric conditions: AO working conditions.
• Authorize SHARK-NIR on the SX side.

Procedure

• Point to known binary stars and then offset the telescope and the rotators to get to the nominal (known) position of the planet or introducing a bright speckle by using secondary mirrors at the same parallactic angle of the planet in order to align the slit or TBD????? [This procedure is not complete. we need to work on this.]

Success criteria

• xxx

Notes LBTO support

• SOUL-AO support

Associated SHARK-NIR personnel

Date performed and by whom

Comments

• define the procedure.
• ask VD and DM if (1) SPHERE has a LSS mode and if yes, how they do it ? and (2) do you think need to have a preliminary image of the star + planet (without the slit)?