[evlatests] antenna 16 pointing
Ken Sowinski
ksowinsk at aoc.nrao.edu
Fri Aug 26 16:04:35 EDT 2005
> Before doing the sensitivity
> test and attempt was made to improve the pointing of antenna 16 by
> accounting for the tilt error measured last week in the pad tilt
> rather than the antenna tilt terms. This did not seem to improve
> things but was left in place for the K band measurement.
This was still in place when a pointing run was done the night
of Aug 25 at L band. It was found that the tilt error we were
trying to correct had doubled. Clearly I don't understand the
signs yet. I have now incorporated the change in pad tilt with
the opposite sign and modified the L band elevation collimation
using the results of this pointing run.
The August 22 X band pointing data fits still wanted to explain the
measurements with different tilts in Az and El. This tendendency
was not so obvious in the L band data; perhaps because the poor
quality of L band poiting measurements makes it harder to see.
Over the top observations are still not correct. When elevations
including OTT are allowed the pointing model fit becomes nonsense
with a large chi square and large post-fit residuals in both axes.
The pre-fit residuals do not change significantly.
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