On-line help files describe each Lirctop command, and an electronic logbook contains the latest information about the IR camera, and will include updates and revisions to this manual. These invoke one or more submenus with a variety of choices, described below. However, we welcome suggestions for the addition of new functions and improvements to exisiting ones. It can set the integration time, choose which preset selection to use, start an exposure, and make small telescope moves. Functions which prompt for integration times may change the integration time in selection one.
Some functions move the telescope between target exposures.
These will ask the user in advance if he or she wishes the procedure to pause before and after each exposure, to enable or disable the autoguider. A light-blue Vista window is created. The top-level menu will appear. Some Lirctop selections spawn Vista image, image control, or plot windows, if they do not already exist. These are identical in appearance to the image and image control windows belonging to the data-taker, but are in the service of Vista and operate independently.