Re: NZ first light

From: <Tasso.Tzioumis_at_email.protected>
Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 06:52:46 +1000

Dear Sergei and Tim,

Congratulations on your success. A wondeful job.

And we look forward to working with you soon..

Cheers
Tasso

P.S. the message to vlbiobs bounced (header too long?) hence I re-sent
it.

On 09/08/2009, at 6:50 AM, Tasso Tzioumis wrote:

>Date: Sat, 08 Aug 2009 19:35:44 +1200
>From: "Sergei Gulyaev" <sergei.gulyaev_at_aut.<!--nospam-->ac.nz>
>To: "Sergei Gulyaev" <SGulyaev_at_aut.<!--nospam-->ac.nz>
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>Subject: The first light for NZ 12m Radio Telescope
>
>Dear All,
>
>We had the first light today for our 12m RT. Tim Natusch and I
>observed several brightest sources (Taurus, Cen A, Sgr A, Vela X,
>etc.) in S-band. It became possible after Tim finished building and
>testing the S-band receiver. We've started collecting data for the
>pointing map. First observations show that in general pointing is not
>too bad - Elevation is OK, but it probably requires little correction
>in Az (about a half of the beam). We need more data for different Az
>and El to run the least square method to get reliable results for
>pointing model coefficients.
>
>The telescope is great! It's a pleasure working with such a fast
>machine (5 deg/s in Az).
>
>It is a great event for us and it's the result of a big team effort.
>We would like to thank everyone who designed, built and installed our
>telescope - all Patriot people. Massive thanks to our colleague in
>Australia (and certainly Tasmania!) who always supported and helped us
>tremendously, many thanks to everyone in our Institute (including our
>postgrad students) and to all people in AUT who helped us to make our
>dream of the first "real" radio telescope in NZ come true.
>
>Kind regards,
>Sergei Gulyaev and Tim Natusch
>
>
>
>Professor Sergei Gulyaev, Director
>Institute for Radiophysics and Space Research,
>School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
>Auckland University of Technology
>
>Private Bag 92006 Auckland 1020
>New Zealand
>
>Telephone: 64-9-9219541
>Facsimile: 64-9-9219501
>E-mail: sergei.gulyaev_at_aut.<!--nospam-->ac.nz
>Web: www.crsr.ac.nz

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Received on 2009-08-09 06:53:17