Telescope

class MonitorControl.Antenna.Telescope(obs, dss=0, LO=None, active=True)

Bases: MonitorControl.Device, Astronomy.DSN_coordinates.DSS

Defines the Telescope class.

This class has methods and attributes to describe (an eventually control) a radio telescope. Telescope inherits from the Observatory class

Since this is for a single-dish telescope, there should be only one instance of this class. It is identified with the FITS keyword TELESCOP.

A Telescope() instance has these additional attributes::

  • active - can be set to False to indicate that it is unservicable

  • data - a dictionary with parameters for location, pointing, etc.

  • front_ends - a list of front end objects on the telescope. This is

    generated automatically as the front-end objects are created

  • receivers - a list of down-converter objects on the telescope

  • backends - a list of signal processing and recording devices

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