CARMA Calibrator Locator

Download the script (xplore), and move it somewhere in your path with the execute bit turned on, e.g. in csh notation and assuming you have a ~/bin in your $path: 
	wget http://bima.astro.umd.edu/carma/xplore/xplore
	chmod +x xplore
	mv xplore ~/bin
	rehash
You will also need tcl,tk (wish) and blt installed as packages. This should work on linux (tested on FC5; yum install blt) and MacOSX (10.4, tested using fink's versions of tcl/tk/blt) You can also manually install the blt package and use the BLT_LIBRARY environment variable to point to its library.

To run: execute xplore, and download the calibrator files by clicking on File -> Xfer. This should download the appropriate files in your ~/.xplore_support/ directory.

If you are not online, you can download xplore.tar.gz, which has a bootstrap version of the calibrator files included. Hopefully they are the same version as the one on the carma website.

In this figure the user clicked on the pink square just to get left of the center field, respresenting 3C273. A graph of the flux as a function of time will then show up. Notice the observatory is HatCreek, you will want to change that to Cedar-Flat
Hacks:
  1. To make carma be the default observatory, edit the ~/.xplore_suppport/tel_par.txt file and make carma the first in the list.
  2. For solar systems the miriad "planets" program is used to provide a low accuracy ephemeris (via cgi-bin at UMD)
A mirror of the xplore software should be found at BIMA carma tools page.
Last updated: 30-nov-06 PJT