Radio Astronomy

I gave the talk below to the BAA RAG 13/11/2023. Click on links to download presenation: PDF Version: http://astronomy.me.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Talk-for-BAA-RAG-meeting-131123a.pdf Powerpoint

ezRA suite has produced a map of arms of Milky Way (colour on plot below) – I have overlaid a

Costing around £6 only on Amazon, I am hoping I can use this amazing little board based on A8302 chip

This new mesh antenna from Nooelec is a variation on their 17.6GHz mesh antenna – except it is a little

I am corrected the elevations and azimuths in my data, now that I am using a compass and inclinometer on

3 different altitudes so far, all at 163 degrees azimuth (I used compass to day to check my “180 degrees

I recently received one of these from Amazon – at first sight it looked like it was the same as

Terrible humidity problem – I had mounted receiver on piece of wooden board and fungus growing on it and each

Collected using Ptarmigan array Processed using ezRA suite Plots below – data so far covers 2 data points – both

Whole array = 86 x 86cm in size 4 x 4 pattern of dipole aerials Each dipole = 97mm in