Solar Imaging + Radio Astronomy

[yltansg]

I assembled a Radio Jove kit for radio astronomy during the Lunar New Year period. Coincidentally the Sun has gotten more active with the return of AR1944 from the farside as AR1967. Together with AR 1968, the pair took turn to bombard Earth's magnetic with charged particles.


These 3-colour image (White Light (left), CAK (middle) and H-Alpha (left))shows the positions of the two large spots. AR1967 is the lower one and AR1968 the upper one.

The whole imaging/observing session was made more exciting with the sounds from the Radio Jove receiver and the Skypipe chart recording showing the emission from the Sun.

This chart showed that the flaring intensified at about 11:30 am local time (UTC +8 hrs)

The RJ setup is quite simple - twin dipole, about 3 meters above ground and a shortwave receiver.

[Gary]

Beautiful! Thanks for sharing. Wires never looked so good!

[skc]

Cool! What about lightning?