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Astronomy observatory in Staffordshire, England.

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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
Software
May 25, 2025 Admin

ezRA (Easy Radio Astronomy): How to change Azimuth in a group of ezCol files after these were recorded using a parameter in ezCon 25/5/2025

The following parameters allow ezCon to override the azimuth or elevation embedded within the data files from ezCol and use

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Muon Detection
May 25, 2025 Admin

First LRO PicoMuon detector weekly variation results 25 May 2025

This graph compares last week’s results with those found at a professional observatory in Finland (latter is neutron flux but

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Radio observation in hydrogen line (1420MHz)
May 24, 2025 Admin

Comparison of size of peaks on ezCol (ezRA) from LRO-H2 and LRO-H3 in last few days

See Powerpoint below: https://www.astronomy.me.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Comparison-data-collection-peaks-on-LRO-H2-and-LRO-H3-23-240525.pptx

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Radio observation in hydrogen line (1420MHz)
May 24, 2025 Admin

Ideal thickness for copper feed for cantenna at 1420 Mhz

The ideal thickness (gauge) of copper wire for the feed in a cantenna (typically for Wi-Fi at 2.4 GHz) depends on

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Attending & talking at conferences and workshops
May 18, 2025 Admin

Components I have made for Mini-Antenna Testing Range for EUCARA conference September 2025

I am running a NanoVNA workshop at EUCARA 2025 at Harwell Campus and as part of this I am going

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VLF Radio Detection of SIDs (Very low Frequency detection of Sudden Ionospheric Disturbances)
May 18, 2025 Admin

X-Class and M-Class Solar Flares detected on LRO UKRAA 23.4KHz Sudden Ionospheric Disturbance (SID) Detector 14/5/2025

I have overlaid data from the SID Monitoring Station (purple) onto my data (red) on picture below (SID Monitoring Station

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Radio observation in hydrogen line (1420MHz)
May 18, 2025 Admin

Hi Profile Search

Link below takes you to web-page where you can compare the hydrogen line spectra you have detected with your radio

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Attending & talking at conferences and workshopsUncategorized
May 17, 2025 Admin

Making a 2nd cantenna for the antenna testing range in the NanoVNA workshop at EUCARA 2025

In September 2025, EUCARA is being held at Harwell Campus in UK. I am giving a talk and also running

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Muon Detection
May 16, 2025 Admin

Linux Ubuntu for Radio Astronomy: Michiel Klaassen’s UKRAA CosmicWatch Muon Detector Data Analysis Python Script 16 May 2025

Michiel kindly wrote this script for me to help me analyse the data I have from my Muon Detectors –

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Muon Detection
May 16, 2025 Admin

Linux Ubuntu for Radio Astronomy: Plotting events from Muon_Data_110425@0116.txt data file from UKRAA Cosmic Watch Muon Detectors using Michiel Klaassen’s Python scripts 16/5/2025

I am surprised at just how many events there are in this file – which started 11/4/2025 : 01:16! Michiel

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