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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
Meteor detection by radio
October 4, 2023 Admin

Meteor radio observations for Lichfield Radio Observatory visible on the web

My meteor observations from Lichfield Radio Observatory are now available online via the RMOB website: https://www.rmob.org/#Andrew%20Thornett Andy

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Radio observation in hydrogen line (1420MHz)
October 3, 2023 Admin

72 hour drift scan through Zenith (Cygnus part of Milky Way)

My drift scan has now reached 3 days – the repeated high signal of Milky Way can be seen in

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VLF Radio Detection of SIDs (Very low Frequency detection of Sudden Ionospheric Disturbances)
October 3, 2023 Admin

When there is too much gain on VLF SID Receiver!

I am grateful to the help of Andrew Thomas yesterday for helping me to tune my very low frequency (VLF)

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Radio observation in hydrogen line (1420MHz)
October 2, 2023 Admin

Results of two day drift scan of Milky Way at 1420MHz (hydrogen line) using SDR, HNA and Phased Array.

On the plot below, the bright orange areas indicate when high signal has been detected, and green dots represent my

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Radio observation in hydrogen line (1420MHz)
October 2, 2023 Admin

Further plots from ezRA suite of my hydrogen data from Milky Way

Plots from ezRA suite:

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Radio observation in hydrogen line (1420MHz)
October 1, 2023 Admin

Plotting hydrogen of Milky Way

At last! Pretty sure I have now managed to transfer my data to ezRA suite to produce some nifty plots!

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Radio observation in hydrogen line (1420MHz)
September 29, 2023 Admin

Successful detection of atomic hydrogen in Milky Way using phased array and SDR

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Radio Astronomy
September 25, 2023 Admin

Two lessons I have learnt about practical aspects of radio-astronomy

Two important lessons I have learnt over last week,.by making these errors:

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Radio observation in hydrogen line (1420MHz)
September 22, 2023 Admin

Mounting the Ptarmigan Triffid Military Phased Array to allow altitude to be varied.

Photos below show my attempt today to mount the array so that I can aim at Zenith and vary altitude

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Radio observation in hydrogen line (1420MHz)
September 22, 2023 Admin

Successful detection of galactic atomic hydrogen in Milky Way using Ptarmigan Triffid Military Phased Array 21-22/9/23 in Lichfield, UK

I successfully detected hydrogen for first time using SDR, hydrogen HNA, pre-amp, DC block, and SDR# (using version of SDR#

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