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Portable Automated Radio Telescope

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Mike Szczys wrote 08/14/2020 at 16:37 • point

This looks really cool, I'd love to have more details about how you built it and what kind of things you've been doing with it ;-D

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Ameer wrote 08/15/2020 at 10:37 • point

Thanks, it's a telescope I built for students to use and try to locate objects that omit Radio Frequencies, like Man-Made Satellites, The Sun, Cold Bodies like the Earth or Trees. By replacing the LNB with a Hydrogen Line Feed Horn it can also read the Hydrogen Line emission in the Sun, or the Galactic Plane. It can be used with software to read and image signals.

I placed the Dish on a Meade Fork Mount that is electronically driven with a controller.  I 3D printed several parts to mount several parts together.

Here is my Build Page on Cloudy Nights

https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/707022-a-little-radio-telescope-using-a-meade-mount-a-satellit-dish/

Others have done similar setups, though less articulate than the one I built.

Here is what one of them did http://www.threehillsobservatory.co.uk/astro/radio_astronomy/radio_astronomy_1.htm

Here is a Hydrogen Line one

https://stargazerslounge.com/topic/319651-anyone-doing-hydrogen-line-observing/page/2/?tab=comments#comment-3508554

I won't be using mine until schools are back.

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