“First Light” on LRO-H2 (150cm Parabolic Solar Cooker Radio Telescope at Lichfield Radio Observatory) with two orthogonal monopoles in the cantenna prime focus waveguide 27/9/2025 @ 10:35 BST (UTC+1)
At last! Go this 2nd monopole installed on the cantenna at 90 degrees to first – so now I can collect vertically and horizontally polarised 1420 MHz data – given that the Milky Way does not have preferred polarisation direction, I am hoping to combine the data to improve SNR.
Interestingly, the slope of the data plots is in a different direction! Not sure if that means I need to adjust the data before putting it into ezRA’s ezCon – what do you think Ted? Plus, Ted, do I need to find way to average data from both monopoles together before using ezCon or will the software happily combine data from both monopoles for me?
Hope everyone is having a great weekend!
Andy
