hourAngleForField

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Computes the range of hour angles for a specified field in a measurement set. See also parallacticAngle, plotParallacticAngle, and parallacticAngleForField.

Usage:

au.hourAngleForField(vis, field, verbose=True)

Inputs:

• vis: measurement set
• field: field ID or string name
• verbose: if True, then print the derived time range

Returns: a dictionary of hour angles (in hours), keyed by 'min', 'max', and 'mean'

Example:

CASA <3>: au.hourAngleForField('uid___A002_X5f231a_Xfb0.ms',0)
  Out[3]:
{'max': 1.3684181865140275,
 'mean': 1.2987680123445173,
 'min': 1.2291178381750072}

-- ToddHunter - 2015-08-22