The Observers Notebook-Radio Astronomy with the 20m Telescope

Episode 142 In this episode of the Observers Notebook podcast, host Tim Robertson talks to ALPO member and Radio astronomy enthusiast Steve Tzikas and Amateur Astronomer doing Radio Astronomy using a 20m Radio Telescope. You can contact Steve at: Tzikas@alum.rpi.edu Observing Advice for the NRAO Skynet 20-meter telescope https://www.gb.nrao.edu/20m/obsadvice.html SARA website: https://radio-astronomy.org/ The fading of Cassiopeia A, and improved models for the absolute spectrum of primary radio calibration sources (2017) https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/469/2/1299/3098410?login=true SKYNET’S SUITE OF PROCESSING ALGORITHMS FOR SINGLE-DISH RADIO TELESCOPES (2018) https://cdr.lib.unc.edu/concern/honors_theses/rb68xh11f Skynet Algorithm for Single-dish Radio Mapping. I. Contaminant-cleaning, Mapping, and Photometering Small-scale Structures https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.06128 For more information you can visit the ALPO web site at: www.alpo-astronomy.org/ You can also support this podcast at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ObserversNotebook Listen to the podcast on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/observersnotebook Subscribe on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/observers-notebook-the-alpo-podcast/id1199301885?mt=2 ALPO YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/c/AssociationofLunarandPlanetaryObservers I want to thank the Producers of this podcast, Steve Siedentop and Michael Moyer for their generous support of the Observers Notebook. Our Patreons: Jerry White Jason Inman Matt Will Steve Seidentop Matthew Benton Ken Poshedly Stephen Bennett Michael Moyer Shawn Dilles Frank Schenck Damian Allis Carl Hergenrother Bob Soltys Julian Parks