Instrument Parameters

• Optical parameters and orientation 
• Current filter set 
• Sensitivity tables
  • Variation of sensitivity across the array
• Readout modes and noise 
• Read speed, minimum exposure and efficiency 
• Bias voltage, gain and linearity 
  • Non-linearity corrections
• Saturation magnitudes and sky counts
• Notes on thermal imaging

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Observing 

• Running up and down 
• Preparing an observing programme – the ORAC OT 
  • Template sequences 
• Loading and running sequences – the ORAC OM 
• Online data reduction – ORACDR 
  • Available DR Recipes 
• Data format and location at UKIRT 
• Coronagraphic Imaging 
• Sample files with different instrument settings

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Calibration 

• UIST imaging zeropoints 
• General calibration information: Standards, zeropoints and extinction