From: "Pete Newman"
Subject: Rotator fiducial errors for 30deg and 106deg [was RE: 2.5m obslog 20020130 (MJD 52305)]
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 09:24:14 -0700
> Fiducial Tables: The engineering staff performed the fiducial sweeps
> yesterday and today. We looked at the results tonight. Alt and az look
> fine, but Rot showed huge errors for fiducials 30 and 106 (the same
> physical fiducial?). We decided not to implement the tables yet. French
> & Co. will re-do the rot fiducial sweep tomorrow at a slower speed to
> see if this yields reasonable results for these two crossings. We will
> implement new tables tomorrow.
If it is any help, these are the exact same fiducial positions that gave large
errors last month (see log for MJD 52277).
--Pete