A simple radio astronomy experiment that uses a digital TV satellite dish to measure and calculate the brightness temperature of the Sun. It introduces terminology and concepts that are relevant for single dish radio astronomy.
The project was developed by Mike Gaylard from HartRAO (SA)
Fundamentally radio astronomy relies on the Fourier Transform's ability to extract individual frequency components from measured complex wave functions. For the moment, let's get a conceptual understanding of how a wave can be approximated by the sum of frequencies components. As well as, extracting such components from signals using the Fourier transform.
Introductory material illustrating how interferometry works, as well as how images are generated from interferometry data.
Some example workbooks from other telescopes SARA
See the
SARAO E-Learning Portal
for examples on how to process MeerKAT interferometry data.
Interacting with MeerKAT software may require the astronomer to use a variety of computer interfaces
and tools.
The portal also houses instruction references, focused toward astronomy users.
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