On Dec 31, 2007 8:17 AM, Lamar Owen lowen@pari.edu wrote:
Good morning, and an early Happy New Year to everyone.
I first learned of this SIG Saturday; very cool. I have downloaded and have read the archives of the mailing list (nothing like getting a little history, even if that isn't but a month long) and I plan on attending the meeting on the 11th, unless something work related comes up.
By way of introductions, I am CIO at the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute (PARI), which is one of the few observatories with both optical and radio capabilities.
Ahh the place I always wanted to work :). Congrats to see you Lamar..
We currently have several optical instruments, from a pair of solar telescopes with Ethernet video webcams to a 16 inch DFM with an Apogee Ethernet CCD, and we have four dish-type radio instruments: two 26 meter X-Y mounted prime focus parabolics good up to 12-14GHz; a 12.2 meter prime focus parabolic good to 26-30GHz; and a 4.6 meter prime focus parabolic good up to the low millimeter range. We also have a few HF arrays for use with the Radio Jove program, observing the sun and Jupiter in the 20-28 MHz band. We also host another radio instrument from Virginia Tech; see http://www.ece.vt.edu/swe/eta/ for lots and lots of details on this exciting instrument.
Wow.. that seems like a lot of stuff added since 1994.. or better advertised.
On the subject of packages, I see in the rejected packages list IRAF. Getting permission from UCAR to distribute NCAR as a part of Fedora would be killer, as IRAF is de rigeur for optical astronomy. For radio astronomy, getting the former AIPS and AIPS++ packages, as well as the currently maintained CASA packages, in Fedora would be killer, as that is pretty much required for single dish and interferometer imagery in radio astronomy.
What are the licenses for AIPS? I havent looked at it since I think early 1990s (or I am thinking of a different project.. I am on Nyquil at the moment.).
Congrats on the CIO position... and I will look at the GNUradio stuff.