The reports are human readable text files to allow the user to see, in
a more-or-less concise manner, the details of the schedule and to look
for potential problems (e.g. too little time on a calibrator source).
A variety of reports are provided which emphasize different aspects of
the schedule.
The current set of reports are specific to the VLA but hopefully
contain features applicable to other telescopes.
The various reports are summarized in the following:
- Summary -
This is terse, one line per scan report giving positions, start, stop
and dwell times (time on source) as well as apparent positions (az,
el).
- Scheduling -
This report gives the basic celestial position, time and apparent
positions using several lines per scan.
- Frequency -
This report gives the position and frequency information for each scan.
- Time-on-source -
This report summarizes the total time and range of observing geometry
used for each source.
- Analyst's -
This is a terse position and frequency report.
- Full -
This is a very verbose report giving great detail about each scan.