[daip] BDF to FITS data conversion through AIPS++

Eric Greisen egreisen at nrao.edu
Thu Jun 28 11:52:27 EDT 2012


Rahman, Nurur wrote:
> Hi Eric,
> 
> when the archived VLA data is converted from BDF to fits via AIPS++,  that
> there are two persistent problems:
> 
> 1. The 'Y' coordinate of antenna position 'XYZ' appears '+' giving a 
> positive
> Longitude for the VLA antennas
>   
> 2. When AIPS output fits file is converted to a MIRIAD file (using usual
> MIRIAD command such as 'fits') and run in the MIRIAD 'listobs' task, it
> gives the following error message:
>  
> ### Fatal Error [listobs]:  Variable ut not found, in UVGETVR
> 
> 
> I just wanted to bring these two issues to your attention.
> Nurur

When were these data written through CASA?  I just downloaded data from 
the archive and the ANtenna file information was correct.

Eric Greisen




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