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rubyvanrooyen / xsats

Alert broker to dentify upcoming x-ray targets with SALT annulus overlap windows
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JSON output for SALT visibility #4

Open rubyvanrooyen opened 3 years ago

rubyvanrooyen commented 3 years ago

SALT visibility __main__ function will unpack the file created during web scraping, and for each target apply the track.exe IDL routine to compute the SALT visibility window and write the output to file.

The SALTvisibility.py script is basically just a wrapper, and it would be nice if this could be replaced with a proper python script, but that can be defined as low priority. Since this is a wrapper, I am unsure if JSON output can be added, and it would probably require an intermittent script to unpack the data file once created. But it also raises the question if it is necessary?

rubyvanrooyen commented 3 years ago

Relates to issue #3

rubyvanrooyen commented 3 years ago

@silum I am unsure what the output of the IDL is and how it works, will need to reverse engineer this, may need some help Seem to create a list of SALT targets with start and end times for SALT observation window (?)