Cross-platform Sudden Ionospheric Disturbances (SID) monitor
Monitoring the Sudden Ionospheric Disturbances (SID) is an easy yet exciting Home Based Radio Astronomy Project. This project is an implementation of Stanford SOLAR Center’s SuperSID.
The default SuperSID project software runs on Windows OS to record the pre-amplified signal received by the antenna with a “SuperSID Monitor”.
This SuperSID project is an Open Source implementation that runs on Linux and Windows. The scripts are executable by Python 2.7 and Python 3, at your choice.
This SuperSID includes a text mode which allows to turn your Raspberry Pi in a SID monitor (tested on Raspbian Wheezy & Pidora distro). TkInter in the default GUI to ensure Python 2 and 3 compatibility (but wxPython is still supported for Python 2 only).
Original Project | Open Source SuperSID Project |
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Desktop/Laptop PC | Desktop/Laptop PC/Raspberry Pi (512Mb) |
Windows OS | Linux and Windows OS |
Python 2.7 | Python 2.7 or 3.3+ |
Any Soundcard | USB External Soundcard |
SuperSID Monitor pre-amp. | Direct connection to External Soundcard |
supersid.py:
supersid_plot.py:
Example: ./supersid_plot.py -f ~/Data/DAISYSG_2015-07-03.csv --web