This class can be used to retrieve and process details of particular telescopes. It can be used to determine the location and altitude of a telescope as well as the observational limits.
The list of supported telescopes can be obtained from the SLALIB documentation: http://www.starlink.ac.uk/star/docs/sun67.htx/sun67.html (in particular the slaObs routine).
This class uses Astro::SLA. In the future this dependency will be removed and the telescope tables will be kept internally.
To allow for Minor Planet Center observatory code use, this module uses a data file containing the MPC observatory code, longitude, and parallax coefficients for a large number of observatories. This data file resides in tmpl/MPC.dat and a new version can be obtained from http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/lists/ObsCodes.html. To use an updated version, copy the information from that page (only the data, not any of the headers) into tmpl/MPC.dat, then build this module again. This will automatically create Telescope/MPC.pm, which can then be installed as part of this module.
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
The test make sure some simple parameters can be obtained and that limits work as expected.
This module was written by Tim Jenness <t.jenness@jach.hawaii.edu> of the Joint Astronomy Centre. Updates have been supplied by Brad Cavanagh <b.cavanagh@jach.hawaii.edu> of the Joint Astronomy Centre.
Copyright (C) 2007, 2008, 2010 Science and Technology Facilities Council. Copyright (C) 1998-2005 Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council. All Rights Reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
v0.70 - Now uses Module::Build
v0.60 - Updates for MPC observatory codes and related information.
Can now instantiate an object with specified coordinates.
v0.50 - First release to CPAN