Observation simulation for science tools checkout
The tools in this area are obsSim and orbSim. obsSim has many sources available to it, some of which are described below.
(15 Oct 2004) Sources available to obsSim is a set of example XML definitions of sources. Seth Digel
(20 Oct 2004) orbSim is a simple interface to the pointing mode options that are calculated in the GPS class of the astro. As far as I can tell, the comments in astro/GPS.h are the only documentation of these various pointing modes.