Episode 142

In this episode of the Observers Notebook podcast, host Tim Robertson talks to ALPO member and Radio astronomy enthusiast Steve Tzikas and Amateur Astronomer doing Radio Astronomy using a 20m Radio Telescope.

You can contact Steve at:

Observing Advice for the NRAO Skynet 20-meter telescope

https://www.gb.nrao.edu/20m/obsadvice.html

SARA website:

https://radio-astronomy.org/

The fading of Cassiopeia A, and improved models for the absolute spectrum of primary radio calibration sources (2017)

https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/469/2/1299/3098410?login=true

SKYNET’S SUITE OF PROCESSING ALGORITHMS FOR SINGLE-DISH RADIO TELESCOPES (2018)

https://cdr.lib.unc.edu/concern/honors_theses/rb68xh11f

Skynet Algorithm for Single-dish Radio Mapping. I. Contaminant-cleaning, Mapping, and Photometering Small-scale Structures

https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.06128

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