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Starburst Front End Control System

The Starburst Front End Control System will provide means of controlling, monitoring and adjusting the front-end/receiver system located on the 27-meter antennas at Owens Valley Radio Observatory. The system's goal is to allow for control of newer equipment that has yet to have a dedicated control system and to replace outdated code in Python for easier manipulation across the Starburst team. The project is monitored under the Caltech SURF program and funded with the help of the Flintridge Foundation.

Python Dependencies

Because the core Starburst server runs CentOS 5.5, the common Python library to daemonize processes could not be used. Instead, the Python-Daemon at GitHub authored by Author Link was used in replacement.

Other dependencies include the mechanize module (here).

Project Supervision

The Starburst LabJack Python Wrapper project is supervised under:

James Lamb

Anthony Readhead

Jackie Villadsen

Dale Gary