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OT Release Notes: Pulga
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The Pulga version of the Observing Tool was publicly
released on 12 June 2005. Summarised below are the most significant changes
from the previous public release (Palote) for off-site users:
- Modified instrument components and iterators
- Improved (detector) overheads: GMOSs, NIRI, NIFS
- New configuration options for Altair (field lens, neutral-density
filter)
- Updated NIFS component and iterator (disperser, readmode)
- Added Michelle polarimetry option (for testing and future science use,
when available)
- User interaction and user interface features
- Further improvements to the time accounting (for planned execution time
as well as time charged to program and to partner)
Last update 12 December 2005; Phil Puxley