[daip] DBCON

Eric Greisen egreisen at nrao.edu
Fri Sep 9 11:44:25 EDT 2005


Carl Gross writes:
 > Hello.  I am attempting to combine 2 data sets (both P-band A-array data)
 > using DBCON.  On one of the data sets, I ran EPOSWITCH to switch its epoch
 > from B1950 to J2000.  The other data set is already J2000.  However, the
 > data set that has been EPOSWITCHed now has it's DEC axis rotated (by -0.28).
 > DBCON will not let me combine these two data sets now.  Is there any way
 > that I will be able to combine these two data sets?
 > 

EPOSWTCH is not what you want - run it again to undo what you have
done.  All it does is change the header.  You actually want the u,v,w
to be recomputed in J2000.  Then run UVFIX.  This uses the antenna and
source tables to recompute the u,v,w in J2000.  Then run DBCON.

Eric Greisen




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