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*** NOTE: mwa_pb is officially unsupported and we will not be maintaining it. ***
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For the vast majority of cases, users to should migrate to using hyperdrive for
any and all primary beam modelling requirements.



MWA Telescope Primary Beam code

For more information, see http://www.mwatelescope.org

Requirements:
    -numpy
    -astropy
    -skyfield
    -matplotlib
    -scipy
    -h5py

Optional requirements for the skymap.py module, to generate all-sky maps with
radio sources, constellations, etc, and the MWA beam overlaid as a contour plot:
    -ephem  (to identify what constellation name a given RA/Dec is in)
    -Pillow (to generate PNG files)


NOTE - to use this software, you'll need to download a data file that exceeds
github's maximum file size.

After cloning this repository:
$ cd mwa_pb/mwa_pb/data
$ wget http://ws.mwatelescope.org/static/mwa_full_embedded_element_pattern.h5
$ python setup.py install