[creative codename] Radio Telescope
The first generation of radio telescope at Frihamnstorget intended to to be a fun and interactive learning tool for anyone wanting to learn about space.
Users can connect to and control the telescope through a web app and see live data from the telescope, as well as run guided experiments.
Goal for first experiments:
- Detecting the 1420MHz "Hydrogen Line" and locating the galactic center.
- Connecting to weather satellites and downloading live earth images.
- Detecting known pulsar sources and measuring their rotation speed.
Features:
- Rooftop single dish antenna design.
- Realtime motorized control of antenna direction to sky.
- Self contained electronics.
- Webserver for controlling and viewing telescope data from phone/tablet.
- Low cost.
- Weatherproof.
Block diagram
Here are several block diagrams describing the hardware, signal and data flows.
Hardware level
RF Signal path
DSP / Dataflow Pipeline
Budget
Reference
Skyline height
The figure shows various angles of inclination between the horizon (0°) and various tall structures around the point of the current highest point in Frihamnstorget located at 59.3427791, 18.1176758.
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