Presentation on Solar Cooker Radio Telescope so far to Society of Amateur Radio Astronomy (SARA) 7/10/2024
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Processing first light data from solar cooker radio telescope 6/10/2024
Hot off the press! – only 2 elevation points – data from this week.
Seestar M31 sub-frames from 16/9/2024 and 5/10/2024 for RAG Astrophotography SIG meeting Nov 2024
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Detection of X-class flare at LRO 03/10/2024@1218
Using UKRAA SID Monitor at 23.4 KHz.
Next stage 1.5m solar cooker radio dish 3/10/2024
Some cheap aluminium + zinc spray paint purchased from Lidl, UK, and using my cantenna cut for hydrogen as feedhorn.
Erecting the 150cm (1.5m) Solar Cooker Dish at LRO, and calculating its focal length 28/9/2024
Here is a photo of the dish erected at LRO: Using Parabola Calculator 2 program (Parabola Calculator version 2.0 (tripod.com) https://mscir.tripod.com/parabola/), the dimensions and focal length of my solar cooker…
Assembling solar cooker dish from ebay
First part of assembly process – it is quite big! (1.5m) Andy
Resoldering Alex Pettit 21cm Yagi using lead-based solder with Rosin
we think this aerial is not effective because of poor solder connection. I used lead-free solder and this may have meant that the solder joint was poor, so today some…
Results of solar photography session at LRO 17/9/2024
Sky Watcher Equinox Pro 100mm OTA HEQ5 Pro mount Daystar Quark hydrogen chromosphere filter 174MM camera (not cooled) Daystar interference eliminator ImPPG/Photoshop software Andy First 2 images are versions 1…
Use of an unusual complex tone curve in ImPPG to obtain excellent solar photo from my data 22/9/2024
I used the tone curve below on data from 17/9/2024 – worked well to produce nice inverted curve! Andy