Listening in on Jupiter, or at least trying to do that.
Trying to hear Jupiter Members of the Ducks on the Air Amateur radio club, a group that I advise, gathered in February 2022 to see if they could listen in on Jupiter. Is there...
Category: astronomy
The Totality of NASA Eclipse Soundscapes
Two thousand twenty-four hosted the second total eclipse crossing all the way across the USA in just seven years. From the perspective of scientists, eclipses present time for experimentation. This year was not going...
Software Defined Radio – SDR
I have written about the advantages of a ham (amateur) radio license and the experimental opportunities that such a license leads to. Probably one of the easiest starting points with beginning to understand radio...
Mercury Transit II
Well, we tried to see the transit of the Sun’s closest planet, but the weather challenged our desires today. My colleague, Mike Urbancic, set up a couple of telescopes to see what he...
Eclipses & Transits
Although we were not even on the same continent, we were watching the latest solar eclipse in Northern Chile on the Price Science Commons’ VizWall during the event. Just a couple of years ago...