Cameras or Dishes?

Tempting! Not too far from me.

"Mr Bond... radio astronomy is a dish that is best served cold."

Fizzy,

To answer the question posed in the thread title: Pedantic logic tells us Cameras not Radio.

More info here: **LINK**

http://www.jodrellbank.net/events/advanced-astrophotography/

MichaelG.

Yet the same pedantic logic dictated radio since Jodrell Bank doesnt have cameras, it has radio telescopes a plenty. Hence the confusion on my part.

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But Jodrell Bank is just a venue.

Pedantic astronomer says there are plenty* of amateur radio astronomers

sites.google.com/site/m0zjora/

"During the exam season of 2013 I was bored of revision and the such like so I decided to make a 12 GHz image of the sun. A report was packaged for the ARMMS 2013 Autumn confer[e]nce. "

Neil

*For modest interpretations of the term 'plenty', shall we say enough to justify running an event.

Edited By Neil Wyatt on 16/01/2018 12:47:48

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Oh dear ... Cross Porpoises again

My little bit of pedandtry relates to the term Astrophotography

... photography = drawing with light

MichaelG.

Pedandtry? Now you're teasing us!

Dave

So, Michael G, you're telling us that radio photons are intrinsically different from the higher frequency ones used in optical astronomy?

Hard to justify unless you base it on detector type, which could merely be showing how unimaginative humans are in their detector designs.

Regards

Richard.

Sorry Chaps, I'm not going to get drawn into debate

My initial response to fizzy was meant to highlight a simple, logical, distinction.

Astrophotography is generally accepted as 'optical' ... even if allowed to extend a little above and below the visible spectrum.

Anyone who attends the advertised 'workshop' in the expectation of learning about Radio Astronomy will, I am very sure, find that expectation unfounded.

MichaelG.

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P.S. 'Pedandtry' was a genuine typo ... but I do rather like it.

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 16/01/2018 20:42:00

Does the Jodrell Bank thing still rotate on a track on ex-GWR Castle class bogie sets?

Cheers,

Julian

Edited By julian atkins on 16/01/2018 23:11:30

Hi all, having added the Radio Telescope to my list of things to 'see & do' when I stumbled upon it with the sun shining into the dish on a mission to somewhere else in mid 1960s ( Norton Dommi 88 ) , I finally made it there for the guided tour in summer 2017, nothing prepares you for the sheer size, however for me it was the 2 house size white boxes which elevate the dish & are actually the (only one owner from new guv) gun turret traversing gearboxes off a WW2 battleship, absolutely bang on & with all the indoor displays of rocket science, never seen so many digital readouts in one place, highly recommended.

Bob H.