RetroCam Software Documentation - Macros
The Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science
(Carnegie Observatories), Pasadena, CA
Location of this document:
http://instrumentation.obs.carnegiescience.edu/Software/RetroCam/macros.html
The RetroCam GUI can be controlled by Macro
files. These files consist of simple ASCII text which will be
executed line by line; there are no conditionals or branches in
the order of execution.
List of commands
- exptime #
- Set the exposure time to '#' seconds.
- read
- Start an exposure sequence.
- move dx dy
- Move the telescope by (dx,dy) arcseconds.
- coord dx dy
- Move the telescope by (dx,dy) arcseconds and move the guider-box in
the opposite direction.
- pause {some text}
- Display a dialog-box ("some text") and wait for the user to press the
"OK" button.
- sleep #
- Wait for '#' seconds.
- exit
- Terminate the macro.
-
-
Example-1: Take a sequence of darks (Filter=dk)
exptime 3
read
exptime 5
read
exptime 8
read
exptime 13
read
exptime 21
read
Example-2: Take two (guided) exposures
read
coord 15 15
read
coord -15 -15
Example-3: Take two (un-guided) exposures
read
move 15 15
read
move -15 -15
2016-01-06
Christoph C. Birk, Carnegie Observatories