[SADXA] Sun

Darrel demerson2718 at gmail.com
Tue Jun 21 10:32:45 EDT 2022


The sun is busy today. Looking at the New Mexico LWA2 radio telescope
https://leo.phys.unm.edu/~lwa/lwatv2.html
at 30 MHz, it's been steadily the brightest object in the sky at that 
frequency
since it rose this morning,  effectively blocking out the other strong 
radio sources
in the sky (Cas A, Cygnus A and the Galactic center).  Normally the sun is
barely visible at that frequency with the LWA.  It'll be raising the 
background
noise on the higher HF bands today - and should easily be detected if
you rotate a 2m beam in that direction.

Cheers,
      Darrel, aa7fv.


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