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Stephen Heliczer of Hertford Astronomy Group

## UKRAA

### About us

Origins

The UK Radio Astronomy Association was established in 2008 as a registered charity (registration no 1123866) in the United Kingdom. UKRAA’s objectives are to promote the science of radio astronomy and all branches of radio astronomical research. Prior to UKRAA’s formation, British Astronomical Association’s Radio Astronomy Group (RAG) members had designed and built working protypes of a VLF Receiver and Magnetometer. UKRAA was set up to handle the manufacture and sale of these products and the production of technical manuals covering the use of the products and the background science.

Not for profit

UKRAA is a not for profit business. Any surplus income funds the development of new products and our outreach activities. To keep our prices low UKRAA relies on the volunteers and Trustees giving their time.

Activities

Our primary activity is to supply equipment to amateur astronomers and other interested researchers. The design of new products and the manufacture of equipment for sale is all carried out by volunteers. To promote radio astronomy to amateur astronomers we give talks to local Astronomical Societies and amateur radio clubs and have provided support to schools and university departments on educational projects.

## THE DETECTOR

Detecting muons from the comfort of your armchair

UKRAA is pleased to announce that the first batch of our new PicoMuon muon detectors will soon be available for sale on our website.

We will be launching the detector at AstroFest 2025, held at the Kensington Conference Centre, on 7th and 8th February 2025.

We will be introducing the finished device. This will be fully tested and provided with the operating software loaded.

As supplied, the detector will detect β-particles, ϒ-rays and cosmic muons.

The new detector uses two separated scintillator detectors to eliminate the random β-particles and ϒ-rays from cosmic muons.

All events (β-particles, ϒ-rays and cosmic muons) are output as a CSV file on a micro-SD card or to serial via USB connected to a PC

Full software is available to record, process and plot events and display on your local intranet using a Raspberry Pi4/5

For ongoing support, there is a user forum - where discussion, questions and ideas can be shared.

PicoMuon family

Front view

Rear view

## MY DAILY RAW RESULTS

This data is from my PicoMuon detector

No accuracy is claimed for any published data

Top detector cpm

Top detector cpm frequency

Top detector adc frequency

Bottom detector cpm

Bottom detector cpm frequency

Bottom detector adc frequency

Muons cpm

Muons cpm frequency

Muons adc frequency

## MY DAILY % variation RESULTS

This data is from my PicoMuon detector

No accuracy is claimed for any published data

Muons counted for last day

We acknowledge the NMDB database (www.nmdb.eu) founded under the European Union's FP7 programme (contract no. 213007), and the PIs of individual neutron monitors at: Oulu (Sodankyla Geophysical Observatory of the University of Oulu, Finland)

## MY WEEKLY % variation RESULTS

This data is from my PicoMuon detector

No accuracy is claimed for any published data

Muons counted for last 7 days

We acknowledge the NMDB database (www.nmdb.eu) founded under the European Union's FP7 programme (contract no. 213007), and the PIs of individual neutron monitors at: Oulu (Sodankyla Geophysical Observatory of the University of Oulu, Finland)

## MY MONTHLY % variation RESULTS

This data is from my PicoMuon detector

No accuracy is claimed for any published data

Muons counted for last 31 days

We acknowledge the NMDB database (www.nmdb.eu) founded under the European Union's FP7 programme (contract no. 213007), and the PIs of individual neutron monitors at: Oulu (Sodankyla Geophysical Observatory of the University of Oulu, Finland)

## MY 90 DAYS % variation RESULTS

This data is from my PicoMuon detector

No accuracy is claimed for any published data

Muons counted for last 90 days

We acknowledge the NMDB database (www.nmdb.eu) founded under the European Union's FP7 programme (contract no. 213007), and the PIs of individual neutron monitors at: Oulu (Sodankyla Geophysical Observatory of the University of Oulu, Finland)

## MY 90 DAYS STP variation RESULTS

This data is from my PicoMuon detector

No accuracy is claimed for any published data

Muons counted for last 90 days

## MY 90 DAYS pressure coefficient RESULTS

This data is from my PicoMuon detector

No accuracy is claimed for any published data

Muons counted for last 90 days

## CONTACT

Want more info? Contact us!

Location: UK
WWW: ukraa.com
Email: picomuon@ukraa.com