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Chris,
Attached are the observing files.
Toney


csalter@naic.edu wrote:
> Hi Toney,
>
> Just realised that I haven't replied to the mail that you sent
> me about 2 weeks back. Deepest apologies. My only excuses are that our
> daughter has been down with a fever over the past week, I only booked
> the air tickets a couple of days back, and that I have had two weeks of
> solid night time observing here. In your message, you wrote;
>
> % Would either on of you be interested in presenting us with
> % a colloquium while you are in Green Bank in October?
>
> Well, it is me that is coming, so Tapasi is in the clear! I can
> do my best to put something together over this weekend, so pencil me in to
> give a talk during my time with you in GB. I'll send you a title over
> the weekend, i.e. as soon as I have found what I might talk about
> without either boring the heck out of you all, or getting bunches of
> ramps thrown at me! :-) Probably the best day for a talk from me would
> be Thursday, Oct 19th, in between the two observing sessions. Would
> that work? (Don't expect a Nobel prize lecture though.)
>
> I was roped into this project, GBT06C-008 very late in the day
> as "the fall guy who could get to Green Bank for the initial
> observations!" I suspect that I will hence also be roped in to make the
> rest of the observations remotely as "the fall guy who now has
> experience of the GBT." Anyway, it is great having you as the friend of
> the telescope. Nevertheless, let me warn you that as of now I know next
> to nothing about observing at the GBT, and will probably need to lean
> on you fairly extensively when I arrive. My arrival in GB,
> incidentally, is expected to be on Tuesdayu, Oct 17th, as early as I
> can make it. I fly in to Washington at lunch time on Monday, but hope
> to spend the night in CV and see my old friend, John Payne, as I
> screwed up dates and won't now get to his Appreciation Meeting on Oct
> 26th.
>
> I am not sure how much preparatory work my GBT06C-008
> collaborators have done so far, (I did see mention of a catalog.py
> file in one mail, so I cross my fingers that something has been done
> towards preparing observing files?)
>
> On reviewing the mails that did get sent me, I found the
> following from you to Srianand;
>
>> Dear Raghunathan,
>> I have been assigned to be your local contact for your GBT 06C-008
>> proposal.
>>
>> Attached to this message I have included some sample configuration
>> setups, an example source catalog and an example observing script.
>> Please visit
>> http://wiki.gb.nrao.edu/bin/view/Observing/AstridScriptGuide
>> for more information on the observing interface (astrid) used
>> to observe with the GBT.
>>
>> Please feel free to contact me concerning any aspect of your upcoming
>> observing. I will also gladly look over any observing scripts that
>> you prepare.
>>
>> Toney
>>
>>
>
> Unfortunately, Srianand omited to attach the "Attached to this
> message I have included some sample configuration setups, an example
> source catalog and an example observing script." If you have these
> handy, I wonder if you could send them to me so that I could look them
> over this weekend/on the plane. Thanks. I'll also take a look at your
> wiki for Astrid. What do you recommend I read for data reduction? I
> imagine your IDL system is appropriate?
>
> Well, once again, sorry for this late reply. Hope these words
> find you and yours fit, well, and happy. Look forward to seeing you
> and all my other GB friends there next week. I'll :cc this message to
> my old (actually young) friend, Karen O'Neil, so she'll know that I'm
> coming. Be great to see her, Paul and Max after too long.
>
> With all best wishes,
>
> Chris
>


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