On Dec 31, 2007 8:17 AM, Lamar Owen <lowen@xxxxxxxx> 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. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" _______________________________________________ Fedora astronomy mailing list Fedora-astronomy-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Astronomy https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-astronomy-list
