Installing Owlcat
Prerequisites
- Assorted python packages: pyfits, numpy, matplotlib, casacore, pyrap.
There are debian packages available for casacore and pyrap at:
https://launchpad.net/~ska-sa/+archive/main
-
MeqTrees Cattery, which you can get here:
https://github.com/ska-sa/meqtrees-cattery
For this software there are also Debian packages available in the repo above.
Getting Owlcat
Download the tarball or do a git checkout from:
https://github.com/ska-sa/owlcat
Installing Olwcat
to intall the package run:
$ python setup.py install
Or add the source to your PYTHONPATH.
Running Owlcat
Currently, the most useful script in Owlcat is plot-ms.py. See
http://www.astron.nl/meqwiki-data/users/oms/Owlcat-plotms-tutorial.purrlog/
for examples. If you need quick deterministic flagging, try flag-ms.py.
Questions or problems?
Just e-mail Oleg Smirnov osmirnov@gmail.com or open an issue on Github.
