Hercules A

Hercules A
Radio-Optical View of the Galaxy Hercules A - Many thanks to: NASA, ESA, S. Baum and C. O'Dea (RIT), R. Perley and W. Cotton (NRAO/AUI/NSF), and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

Thursday, September 29, 2011

The Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory in Cambridge United Kingdom - images by Christian Monstein

Photography taken September 2011.

Christian designed and directs the e-Callisto International Network of Solar Radio Spectrometers, from the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule in Zürich:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETH_Zurich

Please see the e-Callisto network page for more details:
http://e-callisto.org/

Christian will give an e-Callisto workshop in Pune India next November:
http://rac.ncra.tifr.res.in/SRWS2011.html

please click images for enlargements
Two 13 meter dishes, part of the Ryle Telescope:
http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/telescopes/ryle/index.html


The Arcminute Microkelvin Imager
http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/telescopes/ami/


The remains of the array with which  Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Anthony Hewish  discovered pulsars in 1967


The central dish of the historic One-Mile Telescope:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-Mile_Telescope




Non-Io-A followed by non-Io-C, at Nancay on 110929

My gratitude to the Nancay Radio Astronomy Station of Paris Observatory and Kochi National College of Technology in Japan


Visu_routine plots: B-W linear - Bottom stretch 20 - Top stretch 45 - Gamma 1.0





Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Io-A high pass followed by non-Io-C, at Nancay on 110924 - 110925

My many thanks to the Nancay Radio Astronomy Station of Paris Observatory and Kochi National College of Technology in Japan

Visu_routine plots: B-W linear - Bottom stretch 20 - Top stretch 45 - Gamma 1.0




Io-B low pass with interesting double Narrow band radiation, followed by non-Io-A, at Nancay on 110924

My gratitude to the Nancay Radio Astronomy Station of Paris Observatory and Kochi National College of Technology in Japan

Visu_routine plots:
B-W linear - Bottom stretch 25 - Top stretch 40 - Gamma 1.0

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Non-Io A and C event, lasting more than 3 hours, at Nancay on 110927

My thanks to the Nancay Radio Astronomy Station of Paris Observatory.

Visualization (visu_routine)  settings:
RAINBOW and B-W linear
Bottom stretch 23 - Top stretch 42 - Gamma 1.0

Monday, September 26, 2011

Selected Solar radio events at STEREO WAVES and Nancay 110910 to 110924

My thanks to the STEREO WAVES Team and the Nancay Radio Astronomy Station of Paris Observatory.

Friday, September 23, 2011

Non-Io-A at Nancay on 110922

I express my thanks to Laurent Denis and Andree Coffre, Nancay Radio Astronomy Station of Paris Observatory, for their help with the Visualization Software I have started to use in this post.

My gratitude to the Kochi National College of Technology in Japan

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

LOFAR Station at Onsala Space Observatory in Sweden

The Swedish Minister for Education and Research, Jan Björklund, will inaugurate Onsala Space Observatory’s LOFAR Station on September 26

Low frequency antenna model - image by Robert Cumming

25 meter telescope - image by Roger Hammargren
20 meter telescope - image by Jan Olof Yxell

For other LOFAR posts see:
http://herrero-radio-astronomy.blogspot.com/search/label/LOFAR%20%20LWA

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Io-B with Narrow radiation followed by non-Io-A on 110916-110917


My gratitude to the Nancay Radio Astronomy Station of Paris Observatory and Kochi National College of Technology in Japan
http://satorchi.net/nancay/rh/index.php

Friday, September 16, 2011

As predicted by Jim Sky's RJP3: Io-C on 110915-110916



 
My gratitude to the Nancay Radio Astronomy Station of Paris Observatory and Kochi National College of Technology in Japan