.Join us on Saturday, May 7, 2022, as we celebrate National Astronomy Day co-hosted by Skyscrapers, Inc. (Amateur Astronomical Society of RI), and the RI Museum of Natural History.
Radio JOVE is a well-known public outreach, education, and citizen science project using radio astronomy and a hands-on radio telescope for science inquiry and education. Radio JOVE 2.0 is a new direction using radio spectrographs to provide a path for radio enthusiasts to grow into citizen scientists capable of operating their own radio observatory and providing science-quality data to an archive. Radio JOVE 2.0 uses more capable software defined radios (SDRs) and spectrograph recording software as a low-cost ($300) radio spectrograph that can address more science questions related to heliophysics, planetary and space weather science, and radio wave propagation. I will overview Radio JOVE 2.0 and give a short demonstration of the new radio spectrograph using the SDRplay RSP1A receiver with a dipole antenna and the associated Radio-Sky Spectrograph (RSS) software.
Saturday, June 18, is “Solar Observing Day” at Seagrave Observatory! June 18 is the Saturday closest to the Solstice so it is an apt day to celebrate the sun! Skyscrapers hope we have clear skies and we can have fun with a whole bunch of activities.
Dr. Geller’s talk, “Caught in the Cosmic Web”, and will describe her adventures in mapping the universe throughout her career. She will discuss the initial discovery of the cosmic web and the HectoMAP project that she is now leading to survey the middle-aged universe. This survey uses data from two of the largest telescopes available to provide the redshift and other spectroscopic data to determine distances to more than 100,000 galaxies. Dr. Geller show how we use these studies to understand structure in the universe and to lay the foundation for future even larger maps extending deeper into the universe.
