Need to get pointing position info to backends

UCBerkeleySETI / meerkat-backend-interface

Breakthrough Listen's interface to MeerKAT

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Need to get pointing position info to backends #11

Closed david-macmahon closed 4 years ago

david-macmahon commented 4 years ago

How will we get pointing position info to the backend? This is needed for target selector logic as well as beamformer delay/phase offset calculations.

danielczech commented 4 years ago

At the moment, the current target coordinates are published to the sensor_alerts channel by the katportal_server, to which the target selector is subscribed. What would be the best way to convey this information to the backends?

danielczech commented 4 years ago

Currently publishing RA_STR and DEC_STR (see 32fb552 and 20f88ae).