seiichi sakamoto <seiichi@nro.nao.ac.jp>
Sun, 30 Jan 2005 13:18:27 -0300

Dear Tony, everyone,

I just received from Koh-Ichiro Morita a text file
that contains relative coordinates of the pads #1-11
used in the current version of the ACA configuration.

PAD_ID    EASTING      NORTHING
#00         -2.30         -4.50
#01          5.04          0.25
#02         -2.74          4.24
#03          8.37          8.36
#04        -11.43          3.06
#05          3.06        -11.43
#06          1.90         14.27
#07        -13.31         -5.50
#08         11.41         -8.78
#09         -6.79         15.54
#10        -10.07        -13.65
#11         16.85         -1.89

Coordinates of the pads #0-#11 are almost fixed
and we are working to optimize the N-S elongation
with additional pads #12-#17.

In the figure that I sent you before, it is supposed that
we will use pads #0-#11 for objects in the declination
range from -60 deg to +20 deg, and pads #1, #2, #7,
and #9-17 for those in other declination ranges.
ACA reconfiguration will be very tricky business.
I am now proposing alternative solution to Koh-Ichiro.

With best,

Seiichi

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