APOD tracking test.

• Antennas: Hb Ho Ke Yg

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# Schedule summary for session: 318b                                              #
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Nominal start:     2016-11-13 10:48:30
Nominal end:       2016-11-13 11:14:27
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Scan#  Source name              Type  Start [UT]  End [UT]  Dur [s]  Sations
1      PN1A [BAC]               s     10:48:30    10:51:57  207      Hb
2      PN1A [BAC]               s     10:51:58    10:52:39  41       Hb Yg
3      PN1A [BAC]               s     10:52:40    10:55:50  190      Yg
4      PN1A [BAC]               s     10:55:51    10:59:52  241      Ke Yg
5      PN1A [BAC]               s     10:59:53    11:01:42  109      Ke
6      0229+131                 q     11:07:46    11:08:29  43       Hb Ke Yg
7      0537-441                 q     11:09:09    11:09:49  40       Hb Ke Yg
8      1921-293                 q     11:10:44    11:11:24  40       Hb Ke Yg
9      2052-474                 q     11:12:03    11:12:43  40       Hb Ke Yg
10     0336-019                 q     11:13:47    11:14:27  40       Hb Ke Yg
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• With VieVS Satellite scheduling tool, by A. Hellerschmied
  • quasar block scheduled automatically
  • APOD scans manually scheduled
• Schedule summary: 318b_sum.txt
• Block of 5 strong quasars were observed before the APOD scans
  • Min scan duration set to 40 sec
  • Sub-netting deactivated
• See catalog files for full setup
• 1 sec time gap in VEX files between APOD scans
  • Continuous tracking and recording
• Min. 5 min time gap before after sat. scans to load antenna control files

• Observers: Jamie, Lucia
• Comments:

• Satellite tracking based on direct AzEl input files
  • Azel values directly taken from tracking files provided by J. Sun
• Station equipment controlled by station dependent VEX files

Files are available on the VieVS server (vievs.hg.tuwien.ac.at, user: sorts) at /home/sorts/apod/2016/

• Azel tracking files for all antennas (1 sec interval)
• VEX file (station depended and combined)
• VIE_SCHED files
  • used control + catalog files
• predicted WGS84 state vectors (1 sec interval, by J. Sun)
• predicted AzEl posititons (1 sec interval, by J. Sun)
• predicted GCRF state vectors (1 sec interval, by J. Sun)