Meteor radio observations for Lichfield Radio Observatory visible on the web
My meteor observations from Lichfield Radio Observatory are now available online via the RMOB website: https://www.rmob.org/#Andrew%20Thornett Andy
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Andrew Thornett, Lichfield, England, M6THO, andrew (at) thornett (dot) net
Radio Astronomy
72 hour drift scan through Zenith (Cygnus part of Milky Way)
My drift scan has now reached 3 days – the repeated high signal of Milky Way can be seen in
Read moreWhen there is too much gain on VLF SID Receiver!
I am grateful to the help of Andrew Thomas yesterday for helping me to tune my very low frequency (VLF)
Read moreResults of two day drift scan of Milky Way at 1420MHz (hydrogen line) using SDR, HNA and Phased Array.
On the plot below, the bright orange areas indicate when high signal has been detected, and green dots represent my
Read moreFurther plots from ezRA suite of my hydrogen data from Milky Way
Plots from ezRA suite:
Read morePlotting hydrogen of Milky Way
At last! Pretty sure I have now managed to transfer my data to ezRA suite to produce some nifty plots!
Read moreTwo lessons I have learnt about practical aspects of radio-astronomy
Two important lessons I have learnt over last week,.by making these errors:
Read moreMounting the Ptarmigan Triffid Military Phased Array to allow altitude to be varied.
Photos below show my attempt today to mount the array so that I can aim at Zenith and vary altitude
Read moreSuccessful detection of galactic atomic hydrogen in Milky Way using Ptarmigan Triffid Military Phased Array 21-22/9/23 in Lichfield, UK
I successfully detected hydrogen for first time using SDR, hydrogen HNA, pre-amp, DC block, and SDR# (using version of SDR#
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