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Month: September 2024

Radio observation in hydrogen line (1420MHz)
September 4, 2024 Admin

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

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Radio observation in hydrogen line (1420MHz)
September 2, 2024 Admin

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:

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Hardware
September 2, 2024 Admin

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

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Radio observation in hydrogen line (1420MHz)
September 2, 2024 Admin

Comparison of performance 21cm Yagi vs Ptarmigan array for hydrogen line observation

Data collected using ezRA suite and analysed with same software. Link below to PDF of Ted Cline’s analysis of the

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Spectroscopy
September 1, 2024 Admin

Pack for attendees at Rosliston Astronomy Group Spectroscopy Processing Session Sept 2024

You need to bring a fully charged laptop to the session with you. In advance of the session, download the

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