Nickel POCO User's Guide


Table of Contents


Introduction
Menu & Title Bar
Target Panel
Position Display
Guider Buttons
Dome Status
Limit Status
Time Display
Start/Stop
Functions
Virtual Joystick
Manual Slew
Offset Telescope
Guider Offsets
Guider - CCD Setup
Non-Sidereal Rates
Focus Telescope
Home Telescope
Park Telescope
Manual Dome
All Limits Status
Message Log
Starlist & Starchart
Trouble-shooting

Mt. Hamilton Homepage

Time Display

This panel displays Local Sidereal Time (LST), Pacific Standard Time (PST, never Daylight Time), and Greenwich Mean Time (GMT or UT). POCO gets its time from the Nickel POCO server, olympia, which in turn obtains its time signal from kronos, the Mt. Hamilton GPS time server. Note that the time used by the data-taking software, and therefore the time appearing in data FITS headers, is derived from a different machine (though also ultimately from kronos).


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Last modified: Tue May 12 15:30:16 PDT 2009