[SADXA] Sun

Wes wes_n7ws at triconet.org
Tue Jun 21 22:37:45 EDT 2022


Thanks for the info Darrel.

On 6/21/2022 7:32 AM, Darrel wrote:
> 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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