The Society's radio telescope receiver is assembled and ready to go. Now the challenge will be to figure out how to create a usable, portable antenna. Hopefully we will be able to demonstrate the radio somehow for Astronomy Day. Actual scientific work may be further out, and could depend on a computer running at Stargate and a permanent antenna mounting. But this is a start! If you're interested in helping the Society with its radio astronomy experiments, just contact us.
More photos and details after the jump.
Radio JOVE is designed primarily for monitoring radio emissions from Jupiter and the sun. They have different emission waveforms caused by different conditions in the body - see sample graphs and hear audio here. No, it's not Arecibo; we're not really even competing with the RATZ. But it's a different way of "observing" and a potentially interesting outreach tool.
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Here comes Radio JOVE
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My busband Bill and his friend Dick built a very portable dual dipole antenna. You can see some pictures of it on our Flickr page here http://www.flickr.com/photos/tnskynet/sets/72157620907119018/detail/?page=2 We set it up at the Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers annual conference last year. Contact us from our web page at www.tnskynet.com for more details.
When my daughter was asking about radio telescopes, I was with her finding out all we can about this great astronomy tool. We've been scouring articles online and there were a lot. It's a good thing we also stumbled on this site which has easy to read and understand article on the radio telescope. To find out, see: http://opticgearlab.com/telescopes/what-is-a-radio-telescope.html
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