When there is too much gain on VLF SID Receiver!
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I am grateful to the help of Andrew Thomas yesterday for helping me to tune my very low frequency (VLF) radio receiver, which I use to detect solar flares hitting…
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Results 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 signal detection. Aerial was aimed at Zenith. In the graphs…
Further plots from ezRA suite of my hydrogen data from Milky Way
Plots from ezRA suite:
Plotting hydrogen of Milky Way
At last! Pretty sure I have now managed to transfer my data to ezRA suite to produce some nifty plots! Waiting for Ted Cline from SARA to confirm – but…
Two lessons I have learnt about practical aspects of radio-astronomy
Two important lessons I have learnt over last week,.by making these errors:
Mounting 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 between horizon and Zenith. I have yet to try it…
Successful 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# software provided in SARA Scope in a Box software package).…
Ptarmigan Triffid Military Phased Array Sept 2023
I have been given this incredible aerial/antenna this month – it a military phased array tuned to roughly the correct wavelength for hydrogen (1420MHz) with (I am told) a resolution…
Best astronomy images
Some of my favourite images taken by myself in Lichfield, UK, since I started astrophotography in late 2019 – combination solar, planetary and deep sky images.