September 2024
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Photos from the International Astronomy Show 2024
This show was held in Coventry, England, on 14/9/2024 – the show was excellent, both in terms of talks and stands by astro vendors, and well attended. The show differed…
Advice from James Rowley-Hill on hunting and photographing aurorae in UK at IAS 14/9/2024
Advice from James Rowley-Hill on hunting and photographing aurorae in UK. Aurorae look MUCH better on camera and may not be obvious to eye. Websites and apps for aurora hunting:…
SARA Scope in Box Package, and ezRA Software Suite used for hydrogen radio mapping experiments at LRO and list of hardware components accessible in UK 14/9/2024.
The hydrogen radio mapping project was produced by the Society of Amateur Radio Astronomy (SARA), based in the USA (https://www.radio-astronomy.org/node/366). Software and instructions for this project can be found below,…
Observing Log @ LRO 11/9/2024@ 21:53-22:10 (British Summer Time)
Andrew Thornett: For 1st time in long time I am outsode with my telescope! Tonight the Dobo for visual as I think need to take it easy – only 6…
Latest results of processing all available hydrogen data mapping Milky Way using Ptarmigan Array @ LRO 31/10/2024-10/9/2024
Software used: I am incredibly grateful to Ted Cline for his wonderful ezRA suite software, which was used for data collection and analysis here. The data below has not been…
Data from 24 hour drift scan at 40 degrees declination from Lichfield UK 6-7/9/2024 with Alex Pettit 21cm Patch Yagi Antenna
Data requested by Alex for assessing performance of antenna. Click link below to download data: https://www.astronomy.me.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/AP21YAGI-40degs-dec-24hr-drift-scan-06-070924.zip
Very strange output 3 min sampling ezRA with Alex Pettit Patch Yagi 163 degrees azimuth and 77 degrees elevation (approx 40 degs declination) for few days
Graphs coming from this don’t make sense! Andy Download data from this session & my initial plots using ezRA (ZIP file): https://www.astronomy.me.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Processing-3-min-sample-data-Patch-Yagi-050924.zip My initial plots (processing in ezRA suite):
Live observations of hydrogen line radio observing at Lichfield Radio Observatory presented to the SARA Radio Observing Party 1/9/2024
LRO live presentations. Click on link to view segment from session involving LRO:
Altair Astro 8 inch Newtonian at LRO
Purchased with aim to improve light collection during astro imaging sessions, I have now decided to sell it again as my setup includes my Sky Watcher Espirit 100mm OTA/Atik 16200M…