Basic Information

An Optical Pointing run is assumed to take place within one SchedBlock. A list of potential targets is provided within the SchedBlock, but the Control script used to execute the SchedBlock may not use all of them.

In this first version the SchedBlock to be executed contains a collection of optical camera targets, very similar to the observing targets used for radiometric observing. However, there are, of course, some crucial differences:

Otherwise Optical Camera Targets are very similar to other kinds of target - they may be added to a Schedblock, deleted, copied/pasted etc. Note that different types of targets may be mixed within a SchedBlock. However, this mode is not yet recommended.

The SchedBlock itself also has additions to support optical pointing:

These ``control'' parameters are only used in the context of optical pointing.

The ALMA OT Team, 2012 May 25