A new look for SCUBA observing
A new look for SCUBA observing
From the start of 2002B, SCUBA observing looks quite different as two JCMT projects (OMP and OCS) made significant software deliveries. These include:
- the JCMT OT (observation tool) that
allows PIs to fully specify
their observing programmes and submit them to our database for
execution.
- The JCMT QT (query tool) that allows TSS
and observers to query
our database for the best observations given the current
conditions, TAG priorities etc.
- A new unix-based scuba queue and a queue control GUI application
(JCMT MON) which allows queue control, pointing source
selection etc.
- The OMP Feedback system that provides cradle-to-grave project
tracking for PIs and queue managers. This includes a web page
for each project summarising its current state and past
history, as well as automatic notification of completed
observations.
In addition to these applications, we have written some other systems
that the observers do not directly interact with but are necessary
for observing, such as a database front end server and a scuba
translator that take the encoding produced by the preparation
software and translate them into the ODFs that the SCUBA
acquisition understands.
Almost all the software described above is in use at UKIRT and/or will
be reused for JCMT heterodyne observing in the ACSIS
era. Standardising on a single codebase between all instruments
on the JAC telescopes reduces the software support load which in
turn releases programming effort to make further
improvements.
Check out omp.jach.hawaii.edu
for more information, usage instructions and access to the
project feedback system.
The software was contributed by Martin Folger at the ATC and the
JAC OMP team (Tim Jenness, Kynan Delorey, Shaun de Witt, Matthew
Rippa, Brad Cavanaugh and Frossie Economou
). Invaluable advice was contributed
by Kate Isaak (MRAO) and Jonathan Kemp (JCMT) and countless
other JAC staff and observers.
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Frossie
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