From: <elenc_at_email.protected>
Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 07:25:51 +1000

Congratulations Sergei and Tim,

That's fantastic news!

Cheers,

Emil.

>Dear All,
>
>We had the first light today for our 12m RT. Tim Natusch and I
>observed several brightest sources (Taurus, Cen A, Sgr A, Vela X,
>etc.) in S-band. It became possible after Tim finished building and
>testing the S-band receiver. We've started collecting data for the
>pointing map. First observations show that in general pointing is
>not too bad - Elevation is OK, but it probably requires little
>correction in Az (about a half of the beam). We need more data for
>different Az and El to run the least square method to get reliable
>results for pointing model coefficients.
>
>The telescope is great! It's a pleasure working with such a fast
>machine (5 deg/s in Az).
>
>It is a great event for us and it's the result of a big team
>effort. We would like to thank everyone who designed, built and
>installed our telescope - all Patriot people. Massive thanks to our
>colleague in Australia (and certainly Tasmania!) who always
>supported and helped us tremendously, many thanks to everyone in our
>Institute (including our postgrad students) and to all people in AUT
>who helped us to make our dream of the first "real" radio telescope
>in NZ come true.
>
>Kind regards,
>Sergei Gulyaev and Tim Natusch
>
>
>
>Professor Sergei Gulyaev, Director
>Institute for Radiophysics and Space Research,
>School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
>Auckland University of Technology
>
>Private Bag 92006 Auckland 1020
>New Zealand
>
>Telephone: 64-9-9219541
>Facsimile: 64-9-9219501
>E-mail: sergei.gulyaev_at_aut.<!--nospam-->ac.nz
>Web: www.crsr.ac.nz
Received on 2009-08-09 07:40:02