A Conceptual Investigation of a Large Radio Telescope Support Point Number Effect on Its Pointing Accuracy

Table 1

The summary of the RMS value for different support numbers.

No.	4 support	6 supports	8 supports
1	0.0058	0.0043	0.0072
2	0.0062	0.0045	0.0047
3	0.0063	0.0049	0.0061
4	0.0061	0.0041	0.0070
5	0.0056	0.0042	0.0060
6	0.0061	0.0041	0.0054
7	0.0054	0.0045	0.0053
8	0.0053	0.0045	0.0056
9	0.0057	0.0040	0.0056
10	0.0062	0.0046	0.0070