1.3.1.0 measures.observatory

measures.observatory - Function

1.3.1 get position of an observatory
Description

observatory will give you the position of an observatory as given in the system. At the time of writing the following observatories are recognised (but check e.g. the position GUI for currently known ones, or the me.obslist() tool function): ALMA ARECIBO ATCA BIMA CLRO DRAO DWL GB GBT GMRT IRAM PDB IRAM_PDB JCMT MOPRA MOST NRAO12M NRAO_GBT PKS SAO SMA VLA VLBA WSRT.

Arguments


Inputs
name	observatory name - case insensitive
	allowed:	string
	Default:	ATCA

Returns
anyrecord

Example

"""
#
print "\t----\t observatory Ex 1 \t----"
print me.observatory(’ATCA’)
#{’m0’: {’value’: 2.6101423190348916, ’unit’: ’rad’},
# ’m1’: {’value’: -0.5261379196128062, ’unit’: ’rad’},
# ’m2’: {’value’: 6372960.2577234386, ’unit’: ’m’},
# ’refer’: ’ITRF’,
# ’type’: ’position’}
#
"""

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