[evlatests] ea28 pointing

Ken Sowinski ksowinsk at nrao.edu
Fri Nov 7 11:06:13 EST 2008


On Mon, 3 Nov 2008, Ken Sowinski wrote:

> The pointing solution is poor and many trials were rejected for
> having too large an estimated beamwidth.  Steve reported this
> morning that there may still be some ACU problems.  If that is
> so, a high quality pointing run awaits the resolution of that
> problem.

This has finally been attributed to a large periodic encoder
error.  It will be adjusted today and if a pointing run over
the weekend is successful the antenna may be moved next week.




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