[evlatests] pointing curiosity

Ken Sowinski ksowinsk at nrao.edu
Sat Sep 22 14:00:55 EDT 2007


On Sat, 22 Sep 2007, Jim Ulvestad wrote:

> I don't suppose there's any reason to believe that some
> part of the on-line system now believes that the VLA Q-band
> feeds are located at the new EVLA position rather than the
> old VLA position?  Depending on where that might happen
> in the system, I certainly have no idea what the effect
> might be.

An interesting thought, but not very likely.  Rotation
parameters have not changed for a long time.  Any small
change of rotation would move the beam in elevation; any
large change would make a complete mess.

That said, software may have changed.

Ken




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