Pre-defined objects
Some telescope sites (pyephem.Observer objects) and astronomical sources (pyephem.FixedBody objects) are defined and callable within obsplanning. This list may grow in the future.
Telescopes
Optical / Infrared
obs.SIT_AAO # Anglo-Australian Observatory, Siding Spring
obs.SIT_CFHT # Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope
obs.SIT_CTIO # Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory
obs.SIT_GeminiN # Gemini North, Hawaii
obs.SIT_GeminiS # Gemini South, Chile
obs.SIT_GMT # Giant Magellan Telescope, Chile
obs.SIT_GTC # Gran Telescopio Canarias, La Palma
obs.SIT_HET # Hobby-Eberly Telescope
obs.SIT_Keck # Keck Observatory, Hawaii
obs.SIT_LDT # Lowell Discovery Telescope (Prev. DCT)
obs.SIT_Lick # Lick Observatory, San Jose
obs.SIT_Magellan # Magellan twin 6.5 meters at LCO
obs.SIT_Meudon # Meudon great refractor
obs.SIT_OHP # Observatoire de Haute Provence
obs.SIT_Palomar # Palomar Observatory, San Diego
obs.SIT_SALT # South African Large Telescope
obs.SIT_Sloan # of SDSS fame, in Apache Point Obs. in Sunspot, NM
obs.SIT_Subaru # Subaru 8.2m on Mauna Kea, Hawaii
obs.SIT_UKIRT # UK Infrared Telescope, Mauna Kea, Hawaii
obs.SIT_VLT # Very Large Telescope, at ESO Cerro Paranal, Chile
obs.SIT_WHT # William Herschel Telescope, La Palma
obs.SIT_WIYN # WIYN 3.5m on Kitt Peak, Arizona
obs.SIT_Yerkes # Yerkes Observatory, Williams Bay, WI
Radio / submm
obs.SIT_ALMA # Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array, Chile
obs.SIT_Arecibo # Arecibo Observatory, Puerto Rico
obs.SIT_ASKAP # Australian SKA Pathfinder
obs.SIT_ATCA # Australian Telescope Compact Array, Narrabri
obs.SIT_Effelsberg # Effelsberg 100m, Germany
obs.SIT_FAST # Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, China
obs.SIT_GBT # Green Bank Telescope, West Virginia
obs.SIT_GMRT # Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope, Pune India
obs.SIT_HARTRAO # Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory
obs.SIT_Haystack # MIT Haystack, Massachussetts
obs.SIT_JCMT # James Clerk Maxwell Telescope, on Mauna Kea, Hawaii
obs.SIT_Jodrell # Jodrell Bank Observatory, England
obs.SIT_Nancay # Nancay Radio Observatory, France
obs.SIT_NOEMA # Northern Extended Millimeter Array (prev.Plateau de Bure), France
obs.SIT_Parkes # CSIRO Parkes Observatory, Australia
obs.SIT_VLA # NRAO Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array, New Mexico
obs.SIT_WSRT # Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope, Netherlands
### VLBA
obs.vlbaBR # VLBA Brewster
obs.vlbaFD # VLBA Fort Davis
obs.vlbaHN # VLBA Hancock
obs.vlbaKP # VLBA Kitt Peak
obs.vlbaLA # VLBA Los Alamos
obs.vlbaMK # VLBA Mauna Kea
obs.vlbaNL # VLBA North Liberty
obs.vlbaOV # VLBA Owens Valley
obs.vlbaPT # VLBA Pietown
obs.vlbaSC # VLBA St Croix
### IVS/VLBI stations, with coordinates from USNO quarterly solution
obs.SIT_AGGO, obs.SIT_AIRA, obs.SIT_ALGOPARK, obs.SIT_AUSTINTX,
obs.SIT_AZORES, obs.SIT_BADARY, obs.SIT_BLKBUTTE, obs.SIT_BLOOMIND,
obs.SIT_BR_VLBA, obs.SIT_BREST, obs.SIT_CARNUSTY, obs.SIT_CARROLGA,
obs.SIT_CHICHI10, obs.SIT_CHLBOLTN, obs.SIT_CRIMEA, obs.SIT_CTVASBAY,
obs.SIT_CTVASTJ, obs.SIT_DEADMANL, obs.SIT_DSS13, obs.SIT_DSS15,
obs.SIT_DSS26, obs.SIT_DSS34, obs.SIT_DSS36, obs.SIT_DSS45,
obs.SIT_DSS56, obs.SIT_DSS65, obs.SIT_DSS65A, obs.SIT_EFLSBERG,
obs.SIT_ELY, obs.SIT_FD_VLBA, obs.SIT_FLAGSTAF, obs.SIT_FORT_ORD,
obs.SIT_FORTLEZA, obs.SIT_FORTORDS, obs.SIT_FTD_7900, obs.SIT_GGAO12M,
obs.SIT_GGAO7108, obs.SIT_GILCREEK, obs.SIT_GOLDMARS, obs.SIT_GOLDVENU,
obs.SIT_GORF7102, obs.SIT_GRASSE, obs.SIT_HALEAKAL, obs.SIT_HART15M,
obs.SIT_HARTRAO, obs.SIT_HATCREEK, obs.SIT_HAYSTACK, obs.SIT_HN_VLBA,
obs.SIT_HOBART12, obs.SIT_HOBART26, obs.SIT_HOFN, obs.SIT_HOHNBERG,
obs.SIT_HRAS_085, obs.SIT_ISHIOKA, obs.SIT_JPL_MV1, obs.SIT_KARLBURG,
obs.SIT_KASHIM11, obs.SIT_KASHIM34, obs.SIT_KASHIMA, obs.SIT_KATH12M,
obs.SIT_KAUAI, obs.SIT_KIRSBERG, obs.SIT_KODIAK, obs.SIT_KOGANEI,
obs.SIT_KOKEE, obs.SIT_KOKEE12M, obs.SIT_KP_VLBA, obs.SIT_KUNMING,
obs.SIT_KWAJAL26, obs.SIT_LA_VLBA, obs.SIT_LEONRDOK, obs.SIT_MACGO12M,
obs.SIT_MADRID64, obs.SIT_MAMMOTHL, obs.SIT_MARCUS, obs.SIT_MARPOINT,
obs.SIT_MATERA, obs.SIT_MCD_7850, obs.SIT_MEDICINA, obs.SIT_METSAHOV,
obs.SIT_METSHOVI, obs.SIT_MIAMI20, obs.SIT_MILESMON, obs.SIT_MIZNAO10,
obs.SIT_MK_VLBA, obs.SIT_MOJ_7288, obs.SIT_MOJAVE12, obs.SIT_MON_PEAK,
obs.SIT_NL_VLBA, obs.SIT_NOBEY_6M, obs.SIT_NOME, obs.SIT_NOTO,
obs.SIT_NRAO_140, obs.SIT_NRAO20, obs.SIT_NRAO85_3, obs.SIT_NYALE13S,
obs.SIT_NYALES20, obs.SIT_OCOTILLO, obs.SIT_OHIGGINS, obs.SIT_ONSA13SW,
obs.SIT_ONSALA60, obs.SIT_OV_VLBA, obs.SIT_OVR_7853, obs.SIT_OVRO_130,
obs.SIT_PARKES, obs.SIT_PBLOSSOM, obs.SIT_PENTICTN, obs.SIT_PIETOWN,
obs.SIT_PINFLATS, obs.SIT_PLATTVIL, obs.SIT_PRESIDIO, obs.SIT_PT_REYES,
obs.SIT_PVERDES, obs.SIT_QUINCY, obs.SIT_RAEGSMAR, obs.SIT_RAEGYEB,
obs.SIT_RICHMOND, obs.SIT_ROBLED32, obs.SIT_SANPAULA, obs.SIT_SANTIA12,
obs.SIT_SC_VLBA, obs.SIT_SEATTLE1, obs.SIT_SEJONG, obs.SIT_SESHAN25,
obs.SIT_SINTOTU3, obs.SIT_SNDPOINT, obs.SIT_SOURDOGH, obs.SIT_SVETLOE,
obs.SIT_SYOWA, obs.SIT_TIANMA65, obs.SIT_TIDBIN64, obs.SIT_TIGOCONC,
obs.SIT_TIGOWTZL, obs.SIT_TOULOUSE, obs.SIT_TROMSONO, obs.SIT_TRYSILNO,
obs.SIT_TSUKUB32, obs.SIT_URUMQI, obs.SIT_VERAISGK, obs.SIT_VERAMZSW,
obs.SIT_VERNAL, obs.SIT_VICTORIA, obs.SIT_VNDNBERG, obs.SIT_WARK12M,
obs.SIT_WESTFORD, obs.SIT_WETTZ13N, obs.SIT_WETTZ13S, obs.SIT_WETTZELL,
obs.SIT_WHTHORSE, obs.SIT_YAKATAGA, obs.SIT_YARRA12M, obs.SIT_YEBES,
obs.SIT_YEBES40M, obs.SIT_YELLOWKN, obs.SIT_YLOW7296, obs.SIT_YUMA,
obs.SIT_ZELENCHK,
Other
obs.SIT_ASTRON # Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy
obs.SIT_Goddard # GSFC, Greenbelt Maryland
obs.SIT_Greenwich # Royal Observatory Greenwich
obs.SIT_Lowell # Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff Arizona
obs.SIT_NAOJ # National Observatory of Japan, in Mitaka
obs.SIT_NRL # Naval Research Laboratory
obs.SIT_OPAR # Paris Observatory
obs.SIT_USNO # United States Naval Observatory
obs.SIT_Socorro # NRAO Socorro
Sources
### Fringe finders
obs.SRC_3C84 # 3C84
obs.SRC_DA193 # DA193
obs.SRC_4C39p25 # 4C39.25
obs.SRC_3C273 # 3C273
obs.SRC_3C345 # 3C345
obs.SRC_1921m293 # 1921-293
obs.SRC_3C454p3 # 3C454.3
obs.SRC_0234p285 # 0234+285
obs.SRC_0528p134 # 0528+134
obs.SRC_J1800p3848 # J1800+3848
obs.SRC_2007p777 # 2007+777
### Flux Calibrators
#[SRC_3C84, defined above]
obs.SRC_3C138 # 3C138
obs.SRC_3C147 # 3C147
obs.SRC_3C196 # 3C19
obs.SRC_3C286 # 3C286
obs.SRC_3C295 # 3C295
### Other
obs.SRC_Crab # Crab Nebula / M1
obs.SRC_SagAstar # Sagittarius A*, the Galactic Center