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measures.observatory - Function
1.4.1 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’ ’SMA’ ’VLA’ ’VLBA’ ’WSRT’
’ATF’ ’ATA’ ’CARMA’ ’ACA’ ’OSF’ ’OVRO_MMA’ ’EVLA’ ’ASKAP’
’APEX’ ’SMT’ ’NRO’ ’ASTE’ ’LOFAR’ ’MeerKAT’ ’KAT-7’ ’EVN’ ’LWA1’
’PAPER_SA’ ’PAPER_GB’ ’e-MERLIN’ ’MERLIN2’ ’Effelsberg’ ’MWA32T’ .
Arguments
Inputs |
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name |
| observatory name - case insensitive
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| allowed: | string |
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| Default: | ALMA |
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record
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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