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York College Radio Telescope. York College Radio Telescope NASA Sharp Ian O’Leary Tim Paglione. Construction. Every item shown came separate. We built this from the ground up on top of the York College rooftop Connections were made from a TV studio to the telescope. Commissioning.
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York College Radio Telescope York College Radio Telescope NASA Sharp Ian O’Leary Tim Paglione
Construction • Every item shown came separate. • We built this from the ground up on top of the York College rooftop • Connections were made from a TV studio to the telescope.
Commissioning • We installed the SRT software on a designated laptop • We aligned the telescope by tracking the Sun. • We rotated the electronic noise calibrator to maximize its power coupling to the receiver. • We observed the HI spectrum from the well-known source S8 . • We installed VNC (Virtual Network Computing) software onto the main laptop to control it from anywhere in the York College network. • We measured beam dimensions observing the Sun
Data Analysis Beam width measurement of azimuth and elevation scans. This chart shows the hydrogen spectrum from the source S8.