5.5.6 Pointing

Processing a Pointing scan requires an object of the class Point. Since the default data object is of class Map, it has to be redefined before reading the file. Then the method to process the data is called solvePointing. Optionally, the method showPointing can be called to show the results on a map:

  data = BoaPointing.Point()  # instantiate a Point object
  data.read('APEX-600')       # fill it with data
  data.solvePointing()        # compute pointing offsets
  data.showPointing()         # display map and fitted 2D-Gaussian