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Handling of lunar telescope data

Open jpober opened this issue 2 years ago • 2 comments

pyuvsim (and maybe one day, real telescopes!) can produce data from lunar surface. pyuvdata should have a way to understand that telescopes are not on the earth (extra keyword "world" seems to be how pyuvsim handles it) but then also needs to have warnings/errors/updated methods for things that assume terrestrial observatory (e.g. phasing and uvw calculations)

jpober avatar Jul 21 '22 15:07 jpober

on the 7/28/22 telecon we decided to add a telescope_frame parameter to the UVData and Telescope objects. The default should be itrs (the frame that astropy EarthLocation objects are defined in).

bhazelton avatar Jul 28 '22 15:07 bhazelton

The equivalent in lunarsky would be MCMF.

aelanman avatar Jul 28 '22 22:07 aelanman

This has mostly been fixed, but I found one more problem in utils.calc_app_coords where the frame wasn't getting passed into get_lst_for_time.

bhazelton avatar Jan 19 '23 18:01 bhazelton