Telescope-Position for Offline Use

14-aug-1998/ jn

The actual position of the telescope and the ordered position for the telescope can now be accessed via a file for OFFLINE use in other programs like ASTRO or GREG. For that reason there exists a program, which writes these two positions every time it is called in a file

SYS$CONTROL:[OBSERVER]teleskop.sou .

This file is in the format like a source catalog file for the ASTRO-Programm and can directly be used for displaying the positions. The source names are TEL_IST and TEL_SOLL. That file also is automatically updated every time a scan is initiated. The program call is only valid in the actual control computer:  run MPI$EXEC:sdh_file.

One can use it in a SIC-Macro by the command: SYSTEM   "run MPI$EXEC:sdh_file"