Radioastronomy utility.
Radioastronomy utility. For more information, see the MLAB wiki.
on Ubuntu run:
sudo apt-get install libfftw3-dev cfitsio-dev libjack-jackd2-dev
git clone https://github.com/MLAB-project/radio-observer.git
.Checkout and build the cppapp
submodule:
$ git submodule init
$ git submodule update
$ cd cppapp
$ make
In the radio-observer
directory, run make
. The resulting binary, named
waterfall
, should appear in the project's root directory.
The program attempts to read a config file in the user's home directory called
.waterfall
. Example config file is stored in waterfall/watefall.cfg
. You
can copy it to your home directory and edit as you like ($ mv waterfall.cfg
$HOME/.waterfall
).
$ waterfall [WAV_FILE]
Without the WAV_FILE
argument, waterfall
attempts to connect to a jack
server and then listen forever to the data sent by Jack. If WAV_FILE
is
specifed, waterfall
uses WAV frontend, reads the WAV file and exits. In
either case, the program stores the resulting data in a series of FITS files
(snapshots) in its current working directory (the directory from which you run
the program).
Currently, the format of the snapshot file name is
snapshot_LOCATION_YEAR_MM_DD_HH_mm_ss.fits
, where LOCATION
is the value of
the location
configuration option, YEAR
is a four-digit year, MM
is
two-digit month, DD
two-digit day and so on.
Despite there being a log_file
configuration option, the log is currently
written only to the stderr. To append it to a file, do output redirection ($
waterfall 2> your_log_file.log
).
Fits file handling: FITS can be converted in png by fits2png script.
sudo apt-get install python-pyfits
See CHANGELOG.md.