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Welcome to the scexao-wiki!

This is a place for instructions, procedures, notes, and anything else needed to use the instrument or interpret data products. A final resting place for all those .txt files, Google docs, paper notebook pages and crayon drawings you have knocking about. Everyone, please add to this!

Contributor's notes

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SCExAO Bench

• Settings and common commands
• Configuring and running the AO loop
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SCExAO Software

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VAMPIRES (deprecated)

⚠️ this VAMPIRES information is deprecated as of June 2023

• VAMPIRES Observing: Calibrations
• VAMPIRES Observing: Standard-modes
• VAMPIRES Observing: Halpha-SDI-mode
• VAMPIRES Polarization Calibration
• Settings and common commands
• VAMPIRES Pupil viewing camera
• Troubleshooting VAMPIRES

GLINT

• Alignment cams and science cam setup
• Conex stage alignment
• BMC alignment
• GLINT User Manual

PDI

• CHARIS and FPDI observing note

Telemetry

• SCExAO Telemetry