RTS2 Hacks and Tests

Things to try in bad weather or if RTS2 is not working.

Note if the Filters did not run because you started too late or because of an RTS2 bug you will have to click the After Flats Button on the RTS2 web page.

To Test Darks open a terminal to bigpop and type:

sudo rts2-queue --queue plan 1

This should add a dark run to the queue.

To try a flats run open a terminal to bigpop and type:

sudo rts2-queue --queue plan 2

If you want to see a list of all pen a terminal to bigpop and type:

rts2-targetlist | less

The rest of these are for advanced users

Changing the flat scripts

Open a terminal on bigpop and type:

nano /etc/rts2/flat.py

That script is called by rts2 but most of the work is done by the flats.py script in /home/rts2obs/software/rts2/python/rts2 . This script hast to be installed by typing sudo make install in that directory.