[evlatests] Troubles with high elevation pointing
Rick Perley
rperley at nrao.edu
Tue Oct 18 14:12:50 EDT 2011
Further review of the 3C84 K-band pointing solutions reveals
something quite interesting ...
I noted earlier that a half dozen antennas had significant
deviations in antenna gain (due to pointing) near transit. All of these
were corrected by referenced pointing, when this was done. The
solutions show that in *all* cases, the major correction is in elevation
-- up to 0.5 arcminute (for antennas 8 and 15).
It would be very useful to follow up on Barry's suggestion of
whether this is repeatable. An easy experiment, when time permits --
to track a few sources on each side of the zenith when they transit,
continuously running referenced pointing.
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