Jeff Morris wrote:
It's interesting (to me, at least) that you used a reference to the
Chandra Telescope - that's the group that I used to work with. For
those that don't know about Chandra, its an orbiting telescope of
roughly the same size as Hubble, that images in the X-Ray spectrum.

Well, I don't know much about radio astronomy, although I learned a fair
bit about it this weekend when I was working as a volunteer at this place.

http://www.pari.edu/

They have lots of big picture from Chandra up on the walls.

It was a lot of fun, for a weekend spent away from the boat.

DSK

DSK wrote:
Jeff Morris wrote:

It's interesting (to me, at least) that you used a reference to the
Chandra Telescope - that's the group that I used to work with. For
those that don't know about Chandra, its an orbiting telescope of
roughly the same size as Hubble, that images in the X-Ray spectrum.


Well, I don't know much about radio astronomy, although I learned a fair
bit about it this weekend when I was working as a volunteer at this place.

http://www.pari.edu/

They have lots of big picture from Chandra up on the walls.

It was a lot of fun, for a weekend spent away from the boat.

DSK


Neat! What kind of work did you do?

Jeff wrote:
Neat! What kind of work did you do?

I came to do some mechanical work (they have a big expensive donated
genset which they can't get on line) but ended up doing a little
scanning and some modifying of power supplies so as to be able to run
some remote equipment off batteries & solar panels.

These guys are the stars of the show
http://www.pari.edu/p06_telescope_display01.asp?scope=1

They were watching & recording the hydrogen line while we were there.

DSK