Project Abstract

As a part of bringing Astronomy & Astrophysics to school students, we have created a Radio Telescope which is portable and cheap (<Rs.10K) to build. We have played around with different antennae - Helix, Dish, Horn, Dipoles - with a set-top box backend and a PC with graphing software to catch radio waves from Galaxies, Black-holes, Quasars, Nebulae, Sun and even Pulsars.

A presentation made for the 3^rd Pro-Am conference in Mumbai, Oct-2013.

A radio astronomy lab for university courses

What's  New

• Posters presented at National Science Day at GMRT on the promotion of Radio Astronomy for schools and colleges:
  The Design and concept
  The Working

Key Milestones

• Oct 2010 - Built and tested Helix 1.4 GHz with STB and Radio-SkyPipe I
• Feb 2011 - Demonstrated Helix+STB RT at GMRT NSD
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