What the Wizard creates

The Wizard creates (or extends) an ObsUnitSet in the system view called "OpticalPointing". For each run of the Wizard it will either replace the SchedBlocks in this ObsUnitSet or append new ones, depending on your reply to the initial dialogue box. Each optical pointing SchedBlock it creates contains only Optcial Camera Targets (there will be N of them, where N is the number of targets in the table). The optical camera targets will all have identical optical camera specifications (as given in the wizard), but each target will, of course, be different. Please take a look at some sample targets to see for yourself.

The field (pointing) pattern is not set for each target. The Control system knows how to take optical camera data and so does not need this information.

At the SchedBlock level the following items are set:

The ALMA OT Team, 2012 May 25