From tcornwel@cv3.cv.nrao.edu Thu Apr 20 09:00:05 2000
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 08:57:47 -0600
From: Tim Cornwell <tcornwel@cv3.cv.nrao.edu>
To: gtaylor <gtaylor@cv3.cv.nrao.edu>, Tim Cornwell <tcornwel@cv3.cv.nrao.edu>
Cc: Steven Myers <smyers@cv3.cv.nrao.edu>
Subject: RE: testing aips++ apr18-19

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: gtaylor [mailto:gtaylor@cv3.cv.nrao.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 11:43 PM
> To: Tim Cornwell
> Cc: Greg Taylor; Steven Myers
> Subject: testing aips++ apr18-19
> 
> 
>   
>                Testing AIPS++  Detailed Log
> 
> April 18-19, 2000, session:
> 
> note: TTT = trouble
>       BBB = bug
>       QQQ = question
> 
> TTT> The visibility plots for the corrected data don't look right for
> 0713+438.  They are sitting at 1.0 Jy -- should be 1.5.  Some other
> cals look ok but there is a lot of bad data.  
> 
> BBB> The Edit functions in visplot don't appear to be working.  Bug
> report submitted and data given to Tim C.

Greg, I'll try to get a working version to you today.
> 
> Until these calibration problems get sorted out I am stuck.  I could
> do a work-around and edit the data in AIPS but this seems to defeat
> the purpose of this end-to-end calibration test.
> 
> Since I'm stuck on the calibration front I thought I would try to do
> some imaging.  Took some data on Jupiter that we are going to be 
> using for the Summer School.  
> 
> BBB> Complained about converting the data to a measurement set:
> 
> SEVERE errors:
> 19-Apr-2000/20:46:13:
> Keyword value has wrong data type.
> 
> 19-Apr-2000/20:46:16:
>  Cannot handle epoch in Pr Group header: -1
> 
> and from the log
> Keyword value has wrong data type.
> FITS card 84: ORIGIN  =            1                              
>                             
> FITS card 84: ORIGIN  =            1                              
>                             
> Keyword value has wrong data type.
> Found binary table of type AIPS SN  following data
> Skipping table (duplicate or unrecognized type)
>  Cannot handle epoch in Pr Group header: -1
> Flushing MS to disk
> 
> But in visplot the data look ok, so I continue....
> 
> TTT> Starting server imager
> Server started: /home/gtaylor/aips++/linux/bin/imager (AIPS++ 
> version: 1.3 (build #400))
> Process 853: waiting for write-lock on file 
> /home/gtaylor/aips++/jupiter6cmms/table.lock

Did you close the ms after filling?

> 
> and now I'm stuck.
> 
> --- end of testing.  
> Frustration meter
> reads: |*******            |
>         low            high
> 
> 
> 
> 
>