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Astronomy observatory in Staffordshire, England.

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Astronomy observatory in Staffordshire, England.

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Solar Cooker 1.5m Parabolic Dish Radio Telescope

Erecting the 150cm (1.5m) Solar Cooker Dish at LRO, and calculating its focal length 28/9/2024

Admin September 28, 2024 No Comments

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…

Solar Cooker 1.5m Parabolic Dish Radio Telescope

Assembling solar cooker dish from ebay

Admin September 25, 2024 No Comments

First part of assembly process – it is quite big! (1.5m) Andy

Radio observation in hydrogen line (1420MHz)

Resoldering Alex Pettit 21cm Yagi using lead-based solder with Rosin

Admin September 25, 2024 No Comments

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…

Solar

Results of solar photography session at LRO 17/9/2024

Admin September 22, 2024 No Comments

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…

Solar

Use of an unusual complex tone curve in ImPPG to obtain excellent solar photo from my data 22/9/2024

Admin September 22, 2024 No Comments

I used the tone curve below on data from 17/9/2024 – worked well to produce nice inverted curve! Andy

Radio observation in hydrogen line (1420MHz)

Ptarmigan Triffid Dipole Array

Admin September 21, 2024 No Comments

Subject: RAG – Triffid Antenna Hi Andy I asked a former colleague from work to help identify your antenna. He had direct oversight of the Ptarmigan and Triffid projects whilst…

Solar Cooker 1.5m Parabolic Dish Radio Telescope

Solar Cooker purchased from ebay September 2024

Admin September 20, 2024 No Comments

This was mentioned on SARA mailing list – and then I saw someone selling one on ebay UK for £50, unused! This is effectively a 1.5m satellite dish which concentrates…

Astrophotography

Eastern Veil Nebula (NGC 6992) taken with my Seestar at LRO 16/9/2024

Admin September 18, 2024 No Comments

20 minutes of data

Attending & talking at conferences, workshops & societies

First Light with my new Seestar S50 telescope at LRO: Andromeda Galaxy M31

Admin September 16, 2024 No Comments

This is a wonderful little device! Portable, fully automatic but I have found benefits from a little post-processing – in this case I stacked images using PixInsight’s Weighted Batch Pre-Processing…

Astrophotography

Photos of my astro-imaging rig at LRO 14/9/2024

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  • Instructions on how to build an Alex Pettit Hydrogen Line Yagi Student Edition for yourself
  • I am trying to calculate Tsys for my 1.2m dish with Norsat 9000LDF LNB at 22GHz for water masers. Using SDR Sharp Signal Diagnostics I have obtained power level (amplitude really of 1.72 dB). I understand cold sky temp at 22 dB is 40K. Have I put the 1.72dB in right place and are results reasonable?

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