THE UNITED KINGDOM INFRARED TELESCOPE
ANNUAL REPORT
1999

3.5. Computing

Highlights of the early part of the year included the continued development and improvement of UFTI data reduction recipes (including recipes for moving objects). In the summer of 1999, the Shack-Hartmann autofocus system was implemented, and considerable improvements were made to the mount servo. On the instrument side, software for TUFTI/IRCAM was commissioned. The UK mirror site of the UKIRT archive saw considerable traffic. The ORAC project, which will unify all future UKIRT data acquisition and reduction, continued its development and achieved initial delivery of the system for use with UFTI in October 1999. Essentially all software effort from October onwards went into the preparation for a ``Big Bang'' release, supporting all instruments including CGS4 and IRCAM, in mid-2000. This included significant work on the Telescope Control System as well as replacing the VAX-based instrument user interfaces.