Karoo Array Telescope (KAT) system package with data from sources external to SARAO that is updated automatically on a daily basis by the HEAD Node on site (e.g., TLEs and Earth orientation parameters).
The catalogues
directory contains catalogues of sources. A subset of these are available at run-time in
MeerKAT's control and monitoring system as a katpoint.Catalogue
object.
Typically called kat.sources
in observation scripts. In the katpoint.Catalogue
object,
the satellite TLE targets can be filtered by tags. The currently available tags are:
BEIDOU
, GALILEO
, GEO
, GPS
, GLONASS
, INTELSAT
, Iridium
, Iridium-NEXT
, SCIENCE
, ZoA
.
The tag names are maintained in a different repository, so check this file for the latest details.
Not all sources are loaded automatically into the kat.sources
objects. For satellite TLEs, the catalogues
directory contains both the source files (<type>.txt
) and corresponding filter files (<type>_keep.txt
).
Only the satellites listed in the _keep.txt
files are available in the kat.sources
catalogue.
However, the full files could be loaded manually.
NOTE: The URLs for downloads are maintained in a different repository, so check this file for the latest details. As a convenience, the URLs (possibly outdated) are repeated here:
- IERS daily EOP: ftp://ftp.iers.org/products/eop/rapid/daily/finals.daily