[evlatests] pointing last night
Bryan Butler
bbutler at nrao.edu
Thu Apr 12 11:15:01 EDT 2007
75 minutes of a 2 hour pointing run at X-band were done last night. things were
relatively calm (wind speed max = 3.5 m/s).
things mostly worked, so vivek, you might want to have a look at the results.
here is the summary:
scan source Az El Nbad Ants
---- -------- ---- -- ---- ----
1 1310+323 -88 69 0
2 1419+543 -16 68 1 7
3 0217+738 +3 18 4 2,7,8,20
4 0927+390 -57 23 2 13,14
5 1331+305 -90 66 7 13,17,18,21,23,24,26
6 1331+305 -90 66 7 13,17,18,21,23,24,26
7 1609+266 +132 79 0
8 1734+389 +69 66 1 14
9 1407+284 -98 69 1 14
10 1415+133 -129 61 0
11 1130-148 -116 11 5 3,4,12,14,24
12 1316-336 -146 13 2 3,21
the notable exception to things working is 3C286 - where most of the EVLA
antennas failed. i thought it might be because of a long slew or high
elevation, but neither of those seem to be the case, so i'm a bit baffled by
that failure. but otherwise it looks pretty good.
if things were calm today, we might want to ask the operators if they could run
a longer pointing file during maint time, but the winds are already at 6 m/s
(max of 9 m/s already today), so it might not be worth it.
but if vivek has a look at the results and sees reasonable things, then we
should definitely ask for a real pointing run as soon as we can get it, to fix
up 21.
-bryan
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