Radio Astronomy

[loopy]

Has anybody ever given it a go? I ordered a book from the US about a month ago on introductory radio astronomy, and it's waiting at my folks house for when I go home. I've done a fair bit of electronics work before, so hopefully it's not too over my head, but it'd be nice to try out some of the stuff.

Cheers,


Brad

[seeker372011]

While I have no personal experience with radio astronomy check this site out:
http://radiojove.gsfc.nasa.gov/help/help.htm#kit

[seeker372011]

and this one
http://www.ukaranet.org.uk/uk_amateurs/bobgreef/

[loopy]

Cheers - I've seen the radio jove site before, but I was thinking more along the lines of imaging with a radio telescope. Maybe mapping the skies over a certain frequency, or analysing a pulsar over some frequency. It'd be cool to be able to image the gas jets coming out of a black hole in the X-ray spectrum, but I can't see how an amateur can get their own sattelite in orbit... :(

Cheers,


Brad

[cometcatcher]

Must resurrect this old thread. :P

One of these years I'll get into radio astronomy. Looks like I won't be able to take radio pics or do any serious mapping. I'd just like to hear something go beep beep or um.. well I dunno really.

I'm a ham radio op and have the odd parabolic dish or 3. It's easy enough to detect sun noise on the satellite C and Ku bands but I want to do a bit more than that!

Getting a good high quality feed at 1420MHz seems to be a problem. Most of the equipment is DIY.

Does anyone know how much radio astronomy can be done on 3.4-4.2 GHz and 10.7-12.75GHz? At least I have some sensitive feeds on those frequencies.