[evlatests] Venus, Software time May 17
Barry Clark
bclark at nrao.edu
Fri May 18 14:46:36 EDT 2007
> The positions in the labels corresponded to a minute or 2 before the
> start of the scan, in RA, and were offset by about 12" in DEC.
> details below.
> Scan Source Qual Calcode Sub Timerange FrqID
> 1 VENUS1 : 0000 1 0/20:38:00 - 0/20:52:30 1
> 2 VENUS2 : 0000 1 0/20:52:50 - 0/21:01:20 1
>
> Source summary
> Velocity type = ' ' Definition = ' '
>
> ID Source Qual Calcode RA(2000.0) Dec(2000.0) No. vis
> 1 VENUS1 : 0000 06:45:59.3443 25:43:52.384 11046
> 2 VENUS2 : 0000 06:46:02.3487 25:43:49.508 7898
>
> ---------------------- JPL online ephemeris (UT)
> http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons.cgi#top
>
> 2007-May-17 20:36 06 45 59.3858 +25 43 40.985
> 2007-May-17 20:38 06 45 59.7835 +25 43 40.604
>
> 2007-May-17 20:50 06 46 02.1692 +25 43 38.321
> 2007-May-17 20:52 06 46 02.5669 +25 43 37.940
The time difference doesn't bother me much. Since this position is for
annotation only, I was rather sloppy. I neglected the UTC-BDT difference,
which is 65 seconds, which accounts for most of it. The 12" in declination
really bothers me, though. I am unable to account for it.
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