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Convert TART data to measurement set format
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Register the various TARTs with JPL #11

Open bennahugo opened 1 year ago

bennahugo commented 1 year ago

At the moment TART is an unknown telescope. As far as I can tell the telescope must be registered with JPL. I'm not sure whether this is jumping the gun, but I'm also not sure what will fall over if we don't do this. Will need to play

tmolteno commented 1 year ago

Reading the code. It may be that the observatory position needs to be in the metadata stored in the MS? The exception occurs in a method MSMetaData::getObservatoryPosition(...)? Surely this isn't hard coded?

bennahugo commented 1 year ago

hmm as far as I understood this was referring to the Observatories ephem table (customizable via .casarc) ... I might be wrong though. Let me have a look.

bennahugo commented 1 year ago

If I change it to kat-7 for instance the error disappears though...

bennahugo commented 1 year ago

I can ask Brian Butler how to go about this. He has done this for MeerKAT in the AIPS version of the CASA tables through JPL. We should decide on a telescope naming / coding convention before there are too many tarts deployed for this purpose. There also needs some facility in tart2ms to give the correct coding (perhaps it should really be based on earth location -- that will make it completely unambiguous. Lets discuss this at the meeting