The software upgrade of NICS

Emanuel Rossetti; Vincenzo Guido; Ernesto Oliva

doi:10.1117/12.789012

15 July 2008 The software upgrade of NICS

Emanuel Rossetti, Vincenzo Guido, Ernesto Oliva

Proceedings Volume 7019, Advanced Software and Control for Astronomy II; 70191R (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.789012
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2008, Marseille, France

Abstract

NICS (the Near Infrared Camera Spectrometer) is a cooled near-infrared camera-spectrometer that has been developed in the late 90's at the INAF-Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory for the Ø3.5 m "Telescopio Nazionale Galileo" (TNG) at the La Palma Observatory. The instrument has been operating for regular scientific observations since the beginning of 2001. During the 2001-2007 period it has been used in about 410 nights yielding data which contributed to the production of 60 refereed papers which collected a total of more than 800 citations. At the age of 8 years, NICS is still among the most efficient and versatile infrared instruments existing worldwide. To improve its observational efficiency, we have designed and we are currently developing new control software and GUI interfaces. The former has been devised to optimize the low level tasks (in particular the motors controls), the latter to simplify the communications between the observer and the instrument. We give here a short description of NICS software upgrade.

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Emanuel Rossetti, Vincenzo Guido, and Ernesto Oliva "The software upgrade of NICS", Proc. SPIE 7019, Advanced Software and Control for Astronomy II, 70191R (15 July 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.789012

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