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dspira-lessons/forum/astronomy/ #5

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utterances-bot opened this issue Nov 19, 2020 · 20 comments
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Astronomy Forum – Digital Signal Processing in Radio Astronomy - Lessons Portal

Lots of lessons

https://wvurail.org//dspira-lessons/forum/astronomy/

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Post Astronomy questions here!

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Post Astronomy questions here!

astronomy is awesome

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What kind of DSP filters do they use on the FAST telescope in China?
There is a video here of them detecting a pulsar in real-time. What sort of DSP filters are they using?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouDh5xUS_cE&t=10s

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Actually I'm not sure if it's in real-time or not. There is another good video that show them detecting pulsars here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eDl0D38r4M

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There is another good video here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfYKEpQXSyo

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The diy radio telescope instructions are awesome and nicely detailed! I want to build one and listen to to the Milky Way. Can someone direct me to the instructions for computer portion of the setup to hear the Milky Way?
Ty.

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GlenLangston commented Feb 15, 2021 via email

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Hello,

I'm preparing to have my students do the Velocity Curve activity for Quadrants II and III. The notes say to assign galactic coordinates to students and then have them use Stellarium to find the corresponding azimuth and elevation, but I can't seem to find a way to get Stellarium to do that conversion. Am I missing something? Is there another convenient way to do the conversion?

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Evan

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Hi Evan,

In Stellarium you can turn on the galactic equator in the viewing settings (and even the galactic grid, but I find the galactic equator alone works best because usually we want to scan along the galactic plane). The students can adjust the time of viewing in Stellarium, find the galactic longitude they want, and then click on the nearest object to that longitude. The azimuth and elevation will be listed on the upper left side of the screen (along with a lot of other info).

I hope this helps. Good luck!

John Makous

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JohnMakous commented Nov 19, 2022 via email

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Hello Dspira Group,

What is the process for pointing the horn telescope? Do I choose the coordinate az=180° or az=0° and then have the alt = 30,45,60, or 75 etc? If so do I need the galactic coordinates for data analysis?

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Vic

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Hi Vic,

I recommend using Stellarium. It is a free, open source planetarium for your computer. You can view the sky from your location at any point in time - present, past or future. It's a great tool for planning an observation. When you click on an object in the sky, it gives several different coordinates of that point, including az and elevation as well as galactic coordinates.

I hope this helps.

John

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