Hydrogen-line observation

pictor.submit_observation

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Point the PICTOR 1.5 m radio telescope at the sky and get a radio spectrum back by email. Submitted through their web form; one shared dish that may be busy or under maintenance.

Inputs

Name	Type	Description
`obs_name`required	string
`f_center`required	number	Center frequency in MHz (hydrogen line: 1420)
`bandwidth`required	number	Bandwidth in MHz
`channels`required	integer	Number of channels
`nbins`required	integer	Number of bins
`duration`required	integer	Observing duration in seconds
`raw_data`	boolean	Also send raw data as .csv

Example output

Provider emails the radio spectrum of the observation, optionally raw data as .csv.

Try it

Not connected yet: use PICTOR directly at pictortelescope.com . Calling it through our MCP returns this same message.

Call it

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "pictor.submit_observation",
    "arguments": {
      "obs_name": "milky-way-hi",
      "f_center": 1420,
      "bandwidth": 2.4,
      "channels": 2048,
      "nbins": 100,
      "duration": 60,
      "raw_data": true
    }
  }
}

curl -sS -X POST https://www.realworldmcp.com/api/call/pictor.submit_observation \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -d '{"obs_name": "milky-way-hi", "f_center": 1420, "bandwidth": 2.4, "channels": 2048, "nbins": 100, "duration": 60, "raw_data": true}'

const res = await fetch("https://www.realworldmcp.com/api/call/pictor.submit_observation", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
  body: JSON.stringify({"obs_name": "milky-way-hi", "f_center": 1420, "bandwidth": 2.4, "channels": 2048, "nbins": 100, "duration": 60, "raw_data": true})
});
console.log(await res.json());