Dozens of free or inexpensive computer programs can aid your observing or simply allow you to explore the sky, with options available for mac, pc, and unix. Pdf file manual explains how to operate the telescope and how to read the javabased control panel window. Its a nice mount cheap, portable and very easy to use, but to get what you want to see, y. Here you can download the latest version of the small radio telescope users manual. It most cases, the software below can print our star charts for a night of viewing and will have extensive databases with at least the most popular night sky objects. Unlike a normal optical telescope, a radio telescope can be used perfectly even during the day time and, if recording 1420 mhz frequency like in the example above, also in bad weather conditions. Recently, i bought a 8 newtonian telescope that came with a dobsonian mount. This program can control your telescope via the ascom or indi interface, has a comprehensive up to date deep sky database with 30. This type of software is used to map the night sky from any location on the earth. In most cases, there are many different versions of software that do a particular thing. In the control room, receivers and various devices can be set on a table or in a standard 19. A compact radio telescope for amateur radio astronomy. If you havent a rack, we can supply you our rk19 rack that comes with fans for temperature control and remote power onoff.
Also included in the manual are discussions about building data aquisition files and reading output data files. Radiouniversepro software gives you all the power you need to control radio2space radio telescopes with a powerful but easytouse interface. If you havent a pc, we can provide you with our cmp19 computer for radio telescopes. The radio astronomy software defined receiver rasdr is a system that provides a versatile softwaredefined receiver sdr that is optimized for radio astronomy. It is running about dozen fully autonomous observatories. The main telescope control interface is an active window with which the user can enable the telescope functions either by a simple mouse click or by a combination of mouse clicks and text entry. Gqrx software defined radio receiver gqrx is a software defined radio receiver powered by gnu radio and the qt gui toolkit. The receiver consists of two highdensity circuit boards a wideband femtocell chip on the front end analog interface myriadrf board linked to a digired digitization and function control board coupled to a computer via either a usb2 or usb3 interface.
The entire radio telescope is controlled with our radiouniversepro software that has to be installed on a windows computer that is not included. Another software for autonomous observatories, the remote telescope system rts2, now on github, also developed an abstract device layer, enabling control of all possible combinations of mounts, ccds, photometers, roof and cupola controllers. Astronomy software, such as the free stellarium program, can you help plan nights of observation. While i use some of these software titles, i am in no way endorsing one brand over another. Rasdr2 is the current hardware that is in testing with a planned general release at this conference. The rasdr design team is releasing a software defined receiver sdr for radio astronomy called rasdr2. Rts2 is project to create an open source environment for control of a fully autonomous observatory. Radio astronomy software defined radio rasdr society. A star database with millions of stars and hundreds of deep sky survey images which blends in accurately. The entire radio telescope is controlled with our radiouniversepro software that has to be installed on a windows computer that is not included with the radio telescope. I am fascinated by astronomy since the first time i looked to the night sky. This frame shows venus and the thin crescent moon framing comet 2pencke.