Can You Build Your Own Radio Telescope at Home?

[Tom.G]

"Astronomy" has published an overview article,
https://www.astronomy.com/observing/wok-way-to-the-stars-radio-astronomy-with-kitchen-gear/

The 33 page detailed instructions as a PDF file, with 26 references, is at:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.15163.pdf

Have Fun! -- And let us know your results, or non-results.

Cheers,
Tom

 

[berkeman]

Paging @Vanadium 50

Is a homemade radio telescope realistic?

 

[DaveC426913]

I'm pretty sure my buddy up near Ottawa has a setup. I visited it last year.

Ah yes...

http://www.ccera.ca/files/budget_radio_telescope.pdf
"We show two slightly-different designs for a simple, small, effective, radio telescope capable of observing the Sun, and the galactic plane in both continuum and spectral modes, easily able to show the hydrogen line in various parts of the galactic plane."

https://www.radio-astronomy.org/?fb...RkmeMt0zllGkHYNAeuq1Jv8ojly6clzPEguIAFsrIGEWU
"The Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers (SARA) is an international society of dedicated enthusiasts who teach, learn, trade technical information, and do their own observations of the radio sky."

http://www.ccera.ca/files/memos/
(Their published papers.)

 

[Tom.G]

Another resource for building a Radio Telescope is at:
https://spectrum.ieee.org/track-the-movement-of-the-milky-way-with-this-diy-radio-telescope

Cheers,
Tom