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The Visual Spatial Editor

The Visual Spatial Editor allows an image of the source that you wish to image to be loaded and can subsequently be used to determine where the telescopes should point, either by defining individual pointings or rectangular mapping areas. The information entered here will also appear in the Forms Editor that always accompanies the Spatial Editor i.e. it is not necessary to use the Spatial Editor to define any observation with ALMA, although it will greatly aid in setting up some observations.

The Spatial Editor is enabled by selecting the Spatial tab at the top of the Forms Editor when either of the following are selected:

Whilst the Spatial Editor is identical in each case, the Forms Editor is somewhat different and is explained in detail in Section 5.3.2 (Science Goal) and Section 6.2.4.1 (Scheduling Block).

Note that use of the Spatial Editor can be enabled by default using the Preferences menu i.e. it will always be shown when a Field Setup or Field Source is selected.



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The ALMA OT Team, 2016 Aug 23