From awootten at nrao.edu Tue Dec 23 11:33:01 2014 From: awootten at nrao.edu (awootten) Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 16:33:01 -0000 Subject: [alma-config] Fwd: [Almasci_chile] [Alma_chileusers] Antenna dance at ALMA In-Reply-To: <25AF5886-B310-4441-AD8E-FEBDC66F0065@alma.cl> References: <25AF5886-B310-4441-AD8E-FEBDC66F0065@alma.cl> Message-ID: <549998F6.2040906@nrao.edu> Folks, As you know, ALMA recently completed its Long Baseline Campaign to demonstrate array readiness for supporting PI science on long baselines. Many antenna pads have not yet been occupied, as the campaign only used a fraction of the antennas. However, this does mark a milestone in the design of the configuration, in which we all took part some time ago. Thanks again for your efforts! Denis Barkats and others have assembled a movie showing the antenna movements to the end of the campaign, ca 7 Dec. I'd like to share this message from ALMA, and to wish you all a magnificent 2015. Clear skies, Al -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Almasci_chile] [Alma_chileusers] Antenna dance at ALMA Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 09:41:01 -0300 From: Nicolas Lira To: Nicol?s Turpaud Antenna dance at ALMA All of the movements of ALMA?s antennas since September 2009?when the first one arrived at Chajnantor, at an altitude of 5,000 meters in Chile's Atacama Desert?have been charted in this one-minute, animated film that ALMA has created with the help of INRIA , the/Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique/. /"Information about the historical location of each antenna is very important for astronomers when reducing and studying observatory data,"/ says Denis Barkats, an ALMA astronomer and coauthor of the animated film. More information at: http://www.almaobservatory.org/ Danza de antenas en ALMA Todos los desplazamientos de las antenas de ALMA realizados entre septiembre de 2009 -momento en que la primera de ellas lleg? a Chajnantor (5.000mts de altitud en el desierto de Atacama, en Chile)- hasta ahora quedaron graficados en esta animaci?n de un minuto de duraci?n realizada en conjunto por INRIA /-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique/- y ALMA. /"Contar con informaci?n sobre la localizaci?n hist?rica de cada antena es muy importante para los astr?nomos al momento de reducir y estudiar los datos del observatorio"/, dice Denis Barkats, astr?nomo de ALMA y coautor de la animaci?n. M?s informaci?n en: http://www.almaobservatory.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Nicol?s Lira* Education and Public Outreach Assistant, Joint ALMA Observatory Santiago, Chile Tel: +56 2 2467 6519 Cell: +56 9 9445 7726 Email: nlira at alma.cl -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 29358 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ ALMA Chile Users mailing list alma_chileusers at alma.cl https://lists.alma.cl/mailman/listinfo/alma_chileusers -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ Almasci_chile mailing list Almasci_chile at alma.cl https://lists.alma.cl/mailman/listinfo/almasci_chile