JCMT Pointing Reports - 2003

• Jan 01 - CW inclinometry, OK
• Jan 02 - SCUBA azimuth pointing residuals since 1997 - updated
• Jan 22 - Dedicated SCUBA pointing run of 12 Jan 2003
• Jan 23 - Equivalence of FIT7 and TPOINT - revisited
• Jan 24 - dS(daz collimation) trends revealed
• Jan 26 - CW inclinometry, OK
• Jan 29 - Inclinometry & Pointing followup to CBLA : the case for HESA
• Jan 31 - Justification for using HESA ?
• Feb 09 - CW inclinometry, OK
• Feb 18 - Pointing model updated
• Feb 19 - . . . and results are excellent
• Mar 01 - CW inclinometry, OK
• Mar 04 - Trends over the last 2 weeks
• Mar 14 - CW inclinometry, OK
• Mar 18 - Tracking Experiments
• Mar 29 - CW & CCW inclinometry, OK : 4 (CW-CCW) profiles averaged
• Apr 05 - CW inclinometry OK
• Apr 05 - Tracking Experiments / continued
• Apr 10 - Erroneous application of F2 discovered ?!
• Apr 12 - Hybrid track model installed
• Apr 12 - CW inclinometry OK
• Apr 18 & 19 - Tracking Experiments / continued
• Apr 25 - Tracking (wrong TCS used) & transit inclinometry (queer)
• Apr 25 - Tracking again
• May 01 - Transit inclinometry & transit tracking with variable drag
• May 06 - Pointing model updated
• May 14 - Tracking tests
• May 26 - CW inclinometry OK
• May 28 - CBLA, CW inclinometry, all-sky pointing
• Jun 01 - CW & CCW inclinometry OK
• Jun 02 - Tracking through the north, OK
• Jun 15 - CW inclinometry OK
• Jul 30 - Pointing following SMU repair OK
• Aug 19 - CW & CCW inclinometry OK
• Aug 23 - Tracking through the south, OK
• Sep 14 - CW inclinometry OK
• Oct 04 - CW inclinometry OK
• Oct 12 - CW inclinometry OK
• Oct 15 - Use of T_amb for focus correction is no good.
• Oct 19 - CW inclinometry OK
• Oct 22 - 3^hr tracking through the south
• Oct 24 - 3^hr tracking again, but with RxA
• Oct 25 - CW inclinometry OK
• Oct 29 - Repeat of tracking with RxA of irc+10216
• Oct 30 - CW inclinometry OK - track model not updated
• Nov 26 - SMU faults, repair & recovery update (CW)
• Nov 26 - SMU status (RPT)
• Dec 01 - CW inclinometry in November - generally OK.
• Dec 14 - CW inclinometry OK.
• Dec 15 - CW inclinometry & all-sky pointing following CBLA

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