It's that time of year when the clouds invariably fill the night skies, and all astronomy activity is put on hold!
My thoughts as usual turn to radio astronomy.
Astronomy has always been my main hobby, but it is followed closely by my interest in the radio spectrum, especially the amateur (ham) and radio astronomy frequencies.
Thanks to the winter cloudy stuff, often at this time of year I'm unable to collect starlight with my telescopes, but collecting cosmic radio waves through the clouds is no problem with the right radio receiver.
Recently I've been able to catch up with a couple of vintage radio/astronomy related programmes.
This past month has been pretty clouded over, with the odd clear night allowing some beautiful views of Orion and friends.
Apart from a few quick glances of Venus through the 60mm refractor, I haven't taken the telescopes out at all this month!
Fingers crossed for some decent observing in January.....
Happy New Year and clear skies for 2017
Mark & Helen.
My thoughts as usual turn to radio astronomy.
Astronomy has always been my main hobby, but it is followed closely by my interest in the radio spectrum, especially the amateur (ham) and radio astronomy frequencies.
Thanks to the winter cloudy stuff, often at this time of year I'm unable to collect starlight with my telescopes, but collecting cosmic radio waves through the clouds is no problem with the right radio receiver.
Recently I've been able to catch up with a couple of vintage radio/astronomy related programmes.
This past month has been pretty clouded over, with the odd clear night allowing some beautiful views of Orion and friends.
Apart from a few quick glances of Venus through the 60mm refractor, I haven't taken the telescopes out at all this month!
Fingers crossed for some decent observing in January.....
Happy New Year and clear skies for 2017
Mark & Helen.