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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
GNU Radio
July 7, 2025 Admin

What is GNU Radio

GNU Radio is an open-source toolkit for building software-defined radios (SDRs) and signal processing systems. It’s widely used by hobbyists, researchers,

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How to sort out problem if Ubuntu installer cannot see main C drive as boot device

Thanks, Andrew — that suggests the Ubuntu installer is currently only seeing your USB drive (e.g., SanDisk USB 3.2 Gen1) as

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Muon Detection
July 6, 2025 Admin

How to start Grafana dashboard on Linux MiniPC (LRO-PC-09) for my UKRAA Cosmic Watch muon detectors

How to log in remotely to GRAFANA and PGADMIN on Linux Cosmic Watch Muon MiniPC (LRO-PC-09)

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Muon Detection
July 6, 2025 Admin

Miguel’s muon detector physics paper (website version)

Author: Miguel Ríos Martín The following article discusses the physics underpinning the Cosmic Watch Muon Detectors and explains how the

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Muon Detection
July 6, 2025 Admin

Grafana dashboard for Cosmic Watch Muon Detectors is now finished

My dashboard for my Cosmic Watch Muon Detectors is now finished – and the choice of graphs available. Go to

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Linux for Radio Astronomy
July 4, 2025 Admin

Grafana and equivalents on Windows and moving database from Linux to Windows

Grafana itself runs on Windows, so if you’re looking for a Grafana-like tool on Windows, you can simply install Grafana directly on

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July 4, 2025 Admin

Separation M81 and M82 galaxies

The galaxies M81 (Bode’s Galaxy) and M82 (the Cigar Galaxy) are very close together in astronomical terms. Here’s how close: 🔭 Angular Separation (as seen from

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Linux for Radio Astronomy
July 4, 2025 Admin

How to start Grafana dashboard on Linux MiniPC for Miguel’s dashboard for my Cosmic Watch muon detectors

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June 29, 2025 Admin

Working JSON Model for Grafana Dashboard for LRO Cosmic Watch Muon Detectors V2 (currently used https://cosmicwatch.astronomy.me.uk 29/6/2025) — 29/6/2025@22:30

{   “annotations”: {     “list”: [       {         “builtIn”: 1,         “datasource”: {           “type”: “datasource”,           “uid”:

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Linux for Radio Astronomy
June 29, 2025 Admin

Periodic screenshots and FTP for Ubuntu

Is there a program for Ubuntu which will take periodic screenshots and FTP to website? Yes, you can achieve this

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