CRF-15 (Southern Hemisphere Astrometry)

		       2002 September 4 (DOY 247)

			  Notes prepared by
		   Alan Fey, U.S. Naval Observatory


Schedule name:  crf15.skd 

Nominal Start: 18:00 U.T. on September 4 (DOY 247)
   first observation at 18:00 U.T. on 0400-319 45-Ho-Kk-Pa
   first observation at 18:00 U.T. on 1743+173 Ft-Hh

Duration:  24 hours 

Nominal Stop: 18:00 U.T. on September 5 (DOY 248)
   last observation at 17:42 U.T. on 1032-199 Ft
   last observation at 17:51 U.T. on 2353-686 45-Hh
   last observation at 17:54 U.T. on 0400-319 Ho-Kk-Pa

Correlator:  WACO at Washington, DC

Station        Codes    # of tapes   # of obs     Occupation Code
DSS45	       T	0.7	     287
FORTLEZA       F	2.4	     106
HARTRAO	       J	0.7	     154
HOBART26       H	2.8	     276
KOKEE	       K	0.6	     208
PARKES64       P	1.7	     271

Total number of observations (delay measurements): 651
Total number of scans in the schedule: 285

Purpose
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Astrometric observations to strenghten the ICRF in the Southern
Hemisphere by observing ICRF Defining and Candidate sources.

Schedule
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This is a new schedule generated by Alan Fey using sked.

Correlation
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This experiment will be correlated at the WACO Correlator. Tapes should
be shipped to Washington, DC  as soon after the experiment as practical.

Special procedures
==================
None.

Summary
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The following listing is a summary of the observations in this schedule.

 Average number of obs. per baseline per source (normalized by up-time) =   1.7
 Min =    .0   Max =   16.2 (Baseline Kk-Pa on 1925-610)   RMS =   2.3

 Total time:       1443 minutes ( 24.0 hours).

 Key:     45=DSS45      Ft=FORTLEZA   Hh=HARTRAO    Ho=HOBART26   Kk=KOKEE   
          Pa=PARKES64

                  45  Ft  Hh  Ho  Kk  Pa  Avg
 % obs. time:     45  38  44  50  42  32  42 
 % cal. time:      1   1   1   1   1   1   1 
 % slew time:     24  15  28  26   5  41  23 
 % idle time:     28  45  25  21  51  23  32 
 # of tapes :     .7 2.4  .7 2.8  .6 1.7
 total # scans:  151  90 109 136 113 139 123 
 # scans/hour :    6   3   4   5   4   5  5.1
 Avg scan (sec): 259 366 352 319 322 202 303 

      # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE

   | 45  Ft  Hh  Ho  Kk  Pa   StnTotal 
 --------------------------------------
 45|151  22  43  79  58  85      287 
 Ft|     90  46  16  21   1      106 
 Hh|        109  33   0  32      154 
 Ho|            136  62  86      276 
 Kk|                113  67      208 
 Pa|                    139      271 


 Number of  2-station scans:  147
 Number of  3-station scans:  108
 Number of  4-station scans:   30
 Number of  5-station scans:    0
 Number of  6-station scans:    0

 Total # of scans, observations:   285     651


 Average baseline components for all observations
  Average XY     = 4636.
  Average XZ     = 4766.
  Average YZ     = 3700.
  Average length = 5688.