4-11-2016 DSES Technical Planning Meeting – Deep Space Exploration Society

Planning Meeting Minutes

4-11-2016 DSES Technical Planning Meeting Rev. c web version

News & Announcement Board

Upcoming Activities

An Observing Trip at the Haswell antenna site is now scheduled for Saturday September 22, 2018, with observing starting after 12 noon. We will be trying some doppler mapping of the Milky Way galactic plane, and also will look for some specific radio sources in those areas.

The next DSES Science meeting will be Monday, September 24, 5:30 PM at the home of Dr. Richard Russel. Please contact us if you would like information to attend.

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Work trips to the Haswell antenna site are now scheduled for each third Saturday of the month, with weather alternates on Sunday. This third weekend was chosen because it comes between our engineering and science meetings. Having a regular date helps our members plan ahead, especially those who must travel long distances.

Our engineering meetings are held on the second Monday of each month. Members can participate remotely using Teamviewer. Our science meetings are held on the fourth Monday of each month. Start time is 5:30 PM. Please contact us if you would like information to attend.

News

Our DSES Plishner Site Work Trip Report for September 14-16, 2018 is now posted. By Bill Miller and Gary Agranat. With photos.

* * Please see our Review of our Deep Space Exploration Society 2018 Perseid Meteor Shower Open House (August 11-12, 1018). We had a very successful weekend, with many science and social activities. Illustrated with photos. * *

Our post about our Radio Telescope Site Work & Science Trip – August 25, 2018 is now in our DSES Posts. It includes a discussion about follow-up observations made with the 60-foot antenna. And it includes the continuing infrastructure work we are doing before winter returns.

Greenbank & Haswell plots of simultaneous observation of NRAO 5690 on August 15, 2018. Observations by Steve Plock and Skip Crilly.

Dr. Russel's post Observations using the 60-foot Dish during the Open House, August 11, 2018

- The DSES Technical and Operations Meeting Minutes for August 13, 2018 is now posted.

Website Update Notes

- A presentation about Meteor Scatter and Propagation was added to the Education Page. [July 24, 2018]

Active Experiments

Current experiments now in progress at the Plishner Radio Astronomy & Space Science Center site in Haswell:

60-foot dish antenna:
[August 19, 2018] The 60 foot dish antenna is now periodically being used for joint observing runs for SETI with Skip Crilly at the Greenbank Observatory in West Virginia. These joint observations are discussed in Skip's presentation slides from the 2018 SARA Western Conference at Stanford. See the slides on our Publications Page, in the Science Section.

With the pointing systems and receivers now being validated, we also are starting to use the 60-foot dish antenna for detecting astronomical radio source objects and the Milky Way at 1.4 GHz. We currently are using a SpectraCyber 1420 MHz Hydrogen Line Spectrometer. And we are starting to try RASDR4 (Radio Astronomy Software Defined Radio). A 1.4 GHz feed designed by Steve Plock is at the focus.

Jupiter Radio Science Experiment "Radio Jove":
20.1 MHz monitoring of Jupiter and its moon Io, using a 2-element phased dipole antenna - currently down, pending repair of the receiver. [Aug. 18. 2018]

Experiments in Colorado Springs:

430 MHz drift scan

Sudden Ionospheric Disturbance Monitor (SID):
- 25 kHz VLF Solar flare monitoring

More information about our currently running experiments

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