Welcome to Acre Road 1420 MHz Telescope’s documentation!

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Acre Road 1420 MHz Telescope

https://readthedocs.org/projects/acreroad-1420/badge/?version=latest

Control, operation, and analysis code for the 1420 MHz telescope at the Acre Road Observatory, University of Glasgow.

Features

  • TODO Incorporation of the GNU Radio blocks and code which has been written for the SRT
  • TODO Incorprotation of a GUI for the telescope drive control
  • TODO Creation of a GUI for the telescope receiver operation

Installation

At the command line:

$ easy_install acreroad_1420

Or, if you have virtualenvwrapper installed:

$ mkvirtualenv acreroad_1420
$ pip install acreroad_1420

Usage

To use Acre Road 1420 MHz Telescope in a project:

import acreroad_1420

Contributing

Contributions are welcome, and they are greatly appreciated! Every little bit helps, and credit will always be given.

You can contribute in many ways:

Types of Contributions

Report Bugs

Report bugs at https://github.com/transientlunatic/acreroad_1420/issues.

If you are reporting a bug, please include:

  • Your operating system name and version.
  • Any details about your local setup that might be helpful in troubleshooting.
  • Detailed steps to reproduce the bug.

Fix Bugs

Look through the GitHub issues for bugs. Anything tagged with “bug” is open to whoever wants to implement it.

Implement Features

Look through the GitHub issues for features. Anything tagged with “feature” is open to whoever wants to implement it.

Write Documentation

Acre Road 1420 MHz Telescope could always use more documentation, whether as part of the official Acre Road 1420 MHz Telescope docs, in docstrings, or even on the web in blog posts, articles, and such.

Submit Feedback

The best way to send feedback is to file an issue at https://github.com/transientlunatic/acreroad_1420/issues.

If you are proposing a feature:

  • Explain in detail how it would work.
  • Keep the scope as narrow as possible, to make it easier to implement.
  • Remember that this is a volunteer-driven project, and that contributions are welcome :)

Get Started!

Ready to contribute? Here’s how to set up acreroad_1420 for local development.

  1. Fork the acreroad_1420 repo on GitHub.

  2. Clone your fork locally:

    $ git clone git@github.com:your_name_here/acreroad_1420.git

  3. Install your local copy into a virtualenv. Assuming you have virtualenvwrapper installed, this is how you set up your fork for local development:

    $ mkvirtualenv acreroad_1420
$ cd acreroad_1420/
$ python setup.py develop

  4. Create a branch for local development:

    $ git checkout -b name-of-your-bugfix-or-feature

    Now you can make your changes locally.

  5. When you’re done making changes, check that your changes pass flake8 and the tests, including testing other Python versions with tox:

    $ flake8 acreroad_1420 tests
$ python setup.py test
$ tox

    To get flake8 and tox, just pip install them into your virtualenv.

  6. Commit your changes and push your branch to GitHub:

    $ git add .
$ git commit -m "Your detailed description of your changes."
$ git push origin name-of-your-bugfix-or-feature

  7. Submit a pull request through the GitHub website.

Pull Request Guidelines

Before you submit a pull request, check that it meets these guidelines:

  1. The pull request should include tests.
  2. If the pull request adds functionality, the docs should be updated. Put your new functionality into a function with a docstring, and add the feature to the list in README.rst.
  3. The pull request should work for Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.3, and 3.4, and for PyPy. Check https://travis-ci.org/transientlunatic/acreroad_1420/pull_requests and make sure that the tests pass for all supported Python versions.

Tips

To run a subset of tests:

$ python -m unittest tests.test_acreroad_1420

Credits

Development Lead

Contributors

None yet. Why not be the first?

History

0.1.0 (2015-08-11)

  • First release on PyPI.

Drive control

The classes described here are used to control the radio telescope’s drives via an Arduino Due-based controller which runs qp (https://bitbucket.org/nxg/qp) by Norman Gray.

Configuration

The configuration settings for the drive class are checked for in the main settings.cfg used for the entire package.

Earth location should be given as latitude and longitude, in degrees, and elevation, in metres.

Drive

Observation Scheduler

The classes described here run the observation scheduler for the radio telescope.

Scheduler

Indices and tables