Index
DeckAngle
The deck-angle of the telescope (-360..360).
- Input Format:
- A
sexagesimal number
between -360 and 360 degrees, inclusive.
- Operators:
-
-
-a
- The unary minus operator changes the sign of its operand.
- Use with do-loops:
- When a DeckAngle variable is used as the dependent variable of a
do-loop, the associated loop increment is
specified as a Sexagesimal constant.
- Context:
- All of the radio receivers are mounted on a deck that rotates in
the plane of the sky to keep the orientation of the sky
fixed. The angle of this deck with respect to a (to be
determined) fiducial point, can be specified with a DeckAngle
datatype. The DeckAngle datatype is used by the
slew
command.
Martin Shepherd (9-Oct-1997)