Accessing data for quick-look purposes
The Adaptive optics Operator Computer, aka AOC or exao1, has been set up with guest observer quick-look functionality using an account named guestobs.
Preliminaries
First, you will need an SSH key pair. Generating one is outside the scope of this document, but GitHub has a good guide. (You can choose Mac, Windows, or Linux, and you need only follow the steps under the first heading: “Generating a new SSH key”.)
The key consists of a private half, probably named something like id_ed25519, and a public half, named something like id_ed25519.pub. Send the contents of the .pub file to the operator, keeping the private part private.
(Note: id_rsa and id_dsa keys are not usable with MagAO-X. You may use ECDSA or ED25519 keys.)
Connecting
From on-site at Las Campanas
When located at Las Campanas, the operator computer can be reached from the LCO-STAFF network at the address exao1.lco.cl.
Log in using the guestobs account to verify everything works and that you have access (accepting the key fingerprint if needed):
% ssh guestobs@exao1.lco.cl
The authenticity of host 'exao1.lco.cl (200.28.147.221)' can't be established.
ED25519 key fingerprint is SHA256:Azbcyun8qHxuhl0GE9AyG1cPajNPnfKlTQCwTfCMFT0.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no/[fingerprint])? yes
Warning: Permanently added 'exao1.lco.cl' (ED25519) to the list of known h
Last login: Thu Apr 7 15:28:49 2022 from 10.8.22.67
[guestobs@exao1] $
From off-site
You will need a user account on exao0, a computer in our lab at The University of Arizona, which has firewall rules permitting access to the Las Campanas Observatory machines.
You can SSH via exao0 if your SSH client supports the -J option (which most do):
yourComputer$ ssh -J 'ssh myusername@exao0.as.arizona.edu' guestobs@exao1.lco.cl
Browsing the data
The quicklook data are rooted in /data/users/guestobs/quicklook/. So, for example, /data/users/guestobs/quicklook/XXXXXX/ will contain:
[guestobs@exao1] $ ls /data/users/guestobs/quicklook/XXXXXX/
YYYYY
ZZZZZ
and an individual group will contain a folder per science camera:
[guestobs@exao1] $ ls /data/users/guestobs/quicklook/XXXXXX/YYYYY/
camsci1
camsci2
You can use your favorite tool to browse, but we recommend rsync to get quick-look images. (See below.) You may log out of exao1:
[guestobs@exao1] $ logout
$
Downloading quick-look images
You can use rsync to get your images out for quick looking. The path is constructed as follows: /data/users/guestobs/quicklook/<email>/<obs_name>/.
From on-site at Las Campanas
Here’s an example:
$ rsync -a --progress \
guestobs@exao1.lco.cl:/data/users/guestobs/quicklook/jrmales@arizona.edu/testQuicklook/ \
./testQuicklook/
receiving file list ... done
created directory ./testQuicklook
camsci1/camsci1_20220417230302255087061.fits
8640 100% 31.25kB/s 0:00:00 (xfer#3429, to-check=1436/4867)
camsci1/camsci1_20220417230302258540922.fits
8640 100% 31.13kB/s 0:00:00 (xfer#3430, to-check=1435/4867)
[... many lines omitted ...]
sent 5016 bytes received 221150763 bytes 23279555.68 bytes/sec
total size is 221081847 speedup is 1.00
Re-running this command later in the observation will only sync changed files.
From off-site
Here’s an example:
$ rsync -a --progress -e 'ssh -J jlong@exao0.as.arizona.edu' \
guestobs@exao1.lco.cl:/data/users/guestobs/quicklook/jrmales@arizona.edu/testQuicklook/ \
./testQuicklook/
receiving file list ... done
created directory ./testQuicklook
camsci1/camsci1_20220417230302255087061.fits
8640 100% 31.25kB/s 0:00:00 (xfer#3429, to-check=1436/4867)
camsci1/camsci1_20220417230302258540922.fits
8640 100% 31.13kB/s 0:00:00 (xfer#3430, to-check=1435/4867)
[... many lines omitted ...]
sent 5016 bytes received 221150763 bytes 23279555.68 bytes/sec
total size is 221081847 speedup is 1.00
Re-running this command later in the observation will only sync changed files.