Re: [ATM] the future of amateur telescope making and amateur astronomy

[Dominic-Luc Webb <dlwebb@canit.se>]

On Wed, 9 May 2007, Bengt Rosengren wrote:

> 1. I have built a small radio telescope, tuned to 21 cm. Modern receivers
> are extremely powerful and sensitive. You can measure bolometric all
> incident radiation, or split in thousands of channels to look for ET.
>
> 3. I have purcased a "Radio Jove" kit, to observe the radio waves emanating
> from Jupiter.


Bengt is not the only one up here. Nor is he the only one with
these radios. Interferometric arrays might get popular. The
weather up here can be cold and cloudy much of the year, which
drove me to radio. No regrets.

As for looking at the Sun, we up here in Scandinavia are
somewhat blessed in being able to view the Sun for most or
all of the day in the Summer and then a lot of darkness in
the Winter. I have wondered with the highly evolved Internet
access up here if remote scopes might end up here. Sweden is
not a bad place for viewing the aurora borealis either.

Dominic

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