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.
Solar Imaging + Radio Astronomy
Re: Solar Imaging + Radio Astronomy
Beautiful! Thanks for sharing. Wires never looked so good!
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email: gary[at]astro.sg
twitter: @astrosg
"The importance of a telescope is not how big it is, how well made it is.
It is how many people, less fortunate than you, got to look through it."
-- John Dobson.
Re: Solar Imaging + Radio Astronomy
Cool! What about lightning?