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astronomy.me.uk The Website of Lichfield Radio Astronomy Observatory (LRO)

Astronomy observatory in Staffordshire, England.

  • Calculators
  • Contact me
  • Equipment List at Lichfield Radio Observatory
  • Grafana Dashboard Cosmic Watch Detectors
  • History and description of Lichfield Radio Observatory (LRO)
  • Links to other SID monitoring sites
  • Live data from UKRAA Sudden Ionospheric Disturbance Monitor at LRO (SIDs)
  • Live feed from SuperSID monitor
  • Live feed from UKRAA CosmicWatch Muon Detectors
  • Live feed from UKRAA Magnetometer
  • Live feed from UKRAA PicoMuon Muon Detector
  • Live feeds at Lichfield Radio Observatory (LRO)
  • Live Radio meteor observations and meteor counts
  • Live stream from 1420MHz hydrogen-line 86cm Ptarmigan Triffid Dipole Array
  • Privacy Policy
  • Publications & Presentations
  • SHOOS - SARA Hydrogen-Observing Overall Survey
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October 3, 2025 Admin

How to connect & select between two separate SDRplay RSPDuo devices in GNU Radio 3/10/2025

After a nighttime of further investigation, I have got as far as managing to connect & select between two separate

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October 3, 2025 Admin

Upcoming British Astronomical Society Radio Astronomy Group RAGZoom meetings Nov 2025-Jan 2026

Friday November 7th   19:30 (19:30 UTC)Dr Katharine Mulrey Associate professor – Astrophysics  (Radboud University, the Netherlands)The detection of ultra-high-energy cosmic

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October 3, 2025 Admin

Carrington-type events but in the context of other stars, not just the Sun.

Carrington-type events but in the context of other stars, not just the Sun. 🌟 What a “Carrington Event” Is 🌠 “Carrington-Type”

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October 3, 2025 Admin

How bad would solar flare need to be to fatally fail Parker solar probe?

How bad would solar flare need to be to fatally fail Parker solar probe? Short answer: it would take an

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October 3, 2025 Admin

How to get a text transcription of a video file – options for software, installing and using Whisper

You’ve got a video or audio file, and you want to turn its speech into an editable text document (like a

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October 3, 2025 Admin

Using Videopad software to transcribe speech in videos into text (has limitations)

VideoPad can help with transcribing speech (i.e. converting audio in a video into text), though with some limitations (it will not

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September 28, 2025 Admin

Alex Pettit’s advice on how to be meticulous in matching and verifying each feed system on my dual monopole cantenna on LRO-H2(SCRT).

Andrew,  if you Really want to do this you need to be Meticulous in Matching and Verifying Each feed system.

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September 28, 2025 Admin

Why is there a slope of Easy Radio Astronomy (ezRA) ezCol data collection from my radio telescopes?

The screenshot below shows data collection on ezCol from both LRO-H2 Monopole 1 and LRO-H2 Monopole 2 (2 orthogonal polarisations

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September 27, 2025 Admin

“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

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September 27, 2025 Admin

SDRplay RSPDuo & radio interferometry

Short answer — yes you can do radio interferometry with the SDRPlay RSPDuo software defined radio, but with caveats. Downloads

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