At stow:

• M7 to default
• Make sure red beacon goes into the ACQ hole, fine tune into boxes —move beacon flat
• Make sure that the laser from the lab, with m2 corner cube goes into the hole —move dichroic
• Turn off laser and red beacon and turn on blue beacon, to fine tune spots into labao —move dichroic
• Focus blue beacon on labao — then focus red beacon on telescope
• Repeat until convergence and small errors.

Slewing to star:

• At star, the red beacon on telwfs likely won't have moved much, blue beacon on labao may need significant adjustment.
• M7 to default
• Red beacon - TelWFS - beacon flat
• Blue beacon - Labao - dichroic
• Blue beacon focus - Labao - “focus beacon button” - lab parabola
• Red beacon focus -TelWFS - “focus WFS ” button scope parabola.
• Turn off red beacon.
• Lock star - TT
• Close TELWFS DM loop
• Close LABAO DM loop
• AUTOM7 - to offload tilt in lab to M7
• Star acquired
• When slewing to next star, send M7 to default position and repeat.

Implemented January-July 2023

At stow:

• M7 to default. Load default boxes on tel WFS. Load default flats on telAO and labAO.
• Move Beacon flat to center beacon in ACQ hole.
• Align TelWFS boxes to center on the red beacon.
• Align blue beacon to labAO using dichroic.
• Focus blue beacon on labAO and red becaon on TelWFS.
• If aberration terms are high, ZERO CENTROIDS to adjust relative positions of the boxes.

Slewing to Star:

• On first slew only, align red beacon to TelWFS boxes using beacon flat.
• Align blue beacon to lab WFS using M7.
• Focus blue beacon on labAO and red becaon on TelWFS.
• Turn off red beacon.
• Turn off blue beacon and lock star (TT only) - move TelWFS boxes to get star centered and evenly illuminated on ACQ hole.
• Lock star on Tel AO - DM servo
• Turn on blue beacon - lock LABAO servo
• Turn on DM AUTO - use DM to correct tilt and offload to M7 when needed.
• If coma and astigmatism high, create sky flat on bright star - Turn off [DM], [SV FLT], [FLATEN], then relock the [DM].
• For IR combiners, move beacon flat to align star to STST.
• For SPICA, move beacon flat to align star on SPICA FTT.
• Star Acquired.
• When slewing to the next star, DO NOT send M7 to default. If next star is bright align beacon flat to center star on STST/SPICA FTT. If star is faint, keep beacon flat fixed or align beacon flat to center red beacon in offset beacon boxes on TelWFS when repeating sequence.