Contents

• Introduction
• Ephemeris
  • Setting observatory and time
    • Setting the observatory
    • Setting the time
    • Setting defaults
    • HEADER command
  • Computing source positions
    • Source catalogs
    • Source selection
    • Solar system bodies
    • Precession
  • Plotting object positions
    • FRAME definition
    • Plotting sun avoidance region
    • Plotting source or planet position
    • Constellations drawing
  • Observability bar charts
  
  
• Millimeter-wave observations
  • Atmospheric effects
  
  
• Planning observations with the Pico Veleta antenna
• Planning observations with the Plateau de Bure interferometer
  • Receiver and correlator setup
    • Receiver setup
    • Correlator setup
    • Fine-tuning the plot
    • Producing setups
    • Old receiver systems
  • Predicting uv coverage
  • GUI wizards
    • Sensitivity estimate
    • Finding calibrators
  
  
• Internal Help
  • ASTRO language internal help
    • ATMOSPHERE
    • CATALOG
    • CONSTELL
    • CONVERT
    • FRAME
    • HEADER
    • HORIZON
    • Language
    • OBSERVATORY
    • PLANET
    • SET
    • SOURCE
    • TIME
    • UV_TRACKS
  • PDBI and ALMA languages internal help
    • PDBI$\backslash$
    • ALMA$\backslash$
    • PICO$\backslash$
    • BASEBAND
    • FREQUENCY
    • LINE
    • NARROW_INPUT
    • PLOT
    • PRINT
    • SELECT
    • SPECTRAL
    • SPWINDOW
    • WIDEX