18 21 14.2 harris pnt program. pg 131 report 17..verified 4 27 .720 # updated position 18dec98 22:45 # 18 20 36.6 deg min sec tapasi vlbi # 4 27 .793 hr min sec west long tapasi vlbi # # 66d 45m 11.89 tapazi vlbi pos.. and 496 meters # 18 21 14.00 alex via kiriaki # # data file holding info on observatory position. # format is: # # in col 1 is a comment # 1.observatory atronomical lat in deg(int), min(int), sec(float) # 2.observatory west longitude int hour, min,secs(float) # put lattitude on one line as 3 numbers (separated by spaces). # put west longitude on following line 3 numbers per line. # any characters after the 3 numbers on a line will be ignored.. # it's ok to put comments between the two lines.. just make sure # lattitude preceeds west longitude. # # notes: # 1. geocentric long is the same as geodetic long. # # some latitudes of obs. # 18 21 14.2 harris pnt program. pg 131 report 17..verified # 18 13 53.118 geocentric lat...rankin aoSitePos # 18 20 36.0 Astron. almanac. observatories... # 18 20 36.6 tapazi vlbi pos # 18 13 46.177 tempo geocentric position (from xyz below) # 18 21 14.00 alex via kiriaki # 18 20 39.44 gps receiver center of bearing by aerostat people # # west longitude of observatory. used int ut1ToLmst. raDecToFdPos # 04h 27m .720s harris pnt pg 128 report 17 (not verified in prog) # 66d 45m 10.8s # # 04h 27m .6975 aoSitePos. rankin's routines. # 66d 45m 10.46 # # 04h 27m .793s tapazi # 66d 45m 11.89 tapazi vlbi pos.. and 496 meters # # 04h 27m 0.6702s tempo geocentric # 66d 45m 10.054 # # 04h 27m .6975 alex via kiriaki # 66d 45m 10.46 # # 66 45 10.00 gps rcvr center of bearing . aerostat people. # # geocentric coordinates used by tempo (from jpl) # x y z # 2390490.0 -5564764.0 1994727.0 1 ARECIBO XYZ (JPL) 3 AO # lat:asin(z/rad) # long:atan(y/x) # #The following coordinates are now being used for VLBI. #These numbers were derived by running astrometric software on residual VLBI #delay/fringe rates (after our age old coordinates were used to correlate the #data) in ~2002 by Dave Graham at MPIfR. #>From NRAO's SCHED's location.dat file: # DBCODE=AR DBNAME=ARECIBO AXISTYPE='altz' AXISOFF= 0.0000 # X= 2390486.9000 Y= -5564731.4400 Z= 1994720.4500 #DXDT= 0.00990 DYDT= 0.00454 DZDT= 0.01008 EPOCH=52275