TCS3 Position Logs
Intro
This pages contains the tcs3 position logs. Here you can access
data files and graphs showing the tcs3's position. Every 5 minutes, the tcs3
output positional information to .log files. The data can be accessed here, along with
graphs of the data (updated every hour).
Documentation
The format of the data is:
10.18 53688.840648004 3.511302924216 3.3792580 0.3485982 0.1308997 0.3476114 0.1308997 0.3476114 1.008 7.05 272.21 340.30 -0.01 0.95 1.77
elapse_hrs - Elapse Hours since 00:00:00.
mjd_utc - Modified Julian Date
last - radians
mean_ra - radians
mean_dec - radians
mount_ha - radians
mount_dec - radians
ape_ha - radians
ape_dec - radians
AirMass - values from 1.0 to 15.0
zenith_dist - degrees
obs_aziumth - degrees
dome_az - degrees
NS coll apos - volts (added on feb 2009)
EW coll apos - volts
Focus apos - volts
How the data and these pages are produced is documented in the programmer's
notes.html.
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