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/* Change Log */
== Change Log ==
* '''20-25 January 2017:''' Engineering run during which the cryostat was re-aligned to the rest of the instrument in an attempt to remove what was thought to be coma in the images. Eventually concluded that the faint tails extending redward of arc lines are an optical ghost - a series of reflections thought to arise as light bounces between the CCD and the field-flattener lens that forms the cryostat window.
* '''21 December 2016:''' Initial documentation for Quick-Look GUI added: https://topswiki.saao.ac.za/index.php/Quick_Look_Tool
* '''6-13 December 2016:''' Another intensive week of software refinement! Highlights include the introduction of: ''Synergy'' [[https://topswiki.saao.ac.za/index.php/74%22_/_1.9m#Computer_setup_.28keyboard_and_mouse_sharing.29]] (which allows a single keyboard and mouse to operate across the the two SpUpNIC monitors and that of the TCS), the ability to send target coordinates from the SpUpNIC target catalogue file to the TCS (both for pointing and for downloading finder charts), a new exposure tab for automatically running sequences of exposures (e.g. arc-object-arc procedures), a more streamlined Hartmann routine, as well as the general tidying up of various minor software issues. Also the start of comprehensive documentation of the SpUpNIC Control and Quick-Look GUIs.
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