== [[span(style=color: green, **P3.18	Point the slit** )]]== 
 
- **Phase**		:	3  
- **Status**		: 	[[span(style=color: green, **COMPLETE** )]][[span(style=color: blue, **, to be done for SLIT-2** )]]	   
- **Category**	: 	Nighttime testing (functionality and operability) (C5)
- **Recurrence**	: 	before every observing target (LSS), starting from commissioning
- **Duration**	: 	8 hours

**Description**
- This activity will point the long slit at the (known) position angle of an off-axis source.

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

**Procedure**
- Preset to a star with known companion (either a planet or a stellar companion)
- Center the star behind the slit occulter
- By moving the instrument derotator, point the slit at the nominal (known) position of the companion. 

**Templates**
- SHARKNIR_gen_Preset? TBD

**Success criteria**
- Spectrum of the companion clearly distinguishable in raw data. It requires low star-to-planet contrast.
- Direct imaging of the companion?

**Notes**

**LBTO support**
- AO support

**Date performed and by whom**