Normal operations are performed in the ''Main View'' tab of the SpUpNIC Control interface. On the right-hand-side is a graphical representation of the instrument, which shows the light path through the various components controlled by the GUI. You can click on the guide mirror, arc mirror, rear-of-slit mirror and Hartmann shutters to move them in and out of the beam, and on the arc lamps and slit illumination to switch them on and off. A blue border surrounding the graphic indicates that the spectrograph is configured for acquisition or calibration, i.e. some component is in the beam that would obstruct its path to the science detector. If the system is correctly set up for a science exposure, there will be no coloured frame and the red light-path will reach the detector.
== Advanced Detailed Users Guide ==
* The SpUpNIC Control interface has a number of tabs:
* Alternatively, click on the appropriate lamp icon in the instrument schematic - this will switch on the lamp and insert the arc mirror into the beam. Having taken the arc, simply click on the arc mirror icon in the schematic to remove the arc mirror and switch the lamp off. One can also control the lamps using the ''Lamp/Mirror Settings'' pane of the SpUpNIC Control GUI. Click the appropriate ''Change'' state button to switch the desired lamp on/off, and to move the arc mirror into the beam to take an arc exposure.
===Daily Tasks===
====Bias Frames====
* The spectrograph camera does not have a shutter, so even though bias frames are zero second exposures, you still need to take them when light can reach the detector. So ideally while the mirror cover is still closed, or at least not while pointing to an object, or if an arc lamp or the slit illumination etc is on.
====Dome Flats====
====Focusing The Spectrograph - running a Hartmann sequence====