Radio Astronomy

Amateur Groups

European Amateur Radio Club  

Woodbury Group A nice 100' radio telescope project in GA.

Project BAMBI An amateur observatory using a 4 GHz TVRO antenna.

Radio Astronomy at the University of Indianapolis includes an online radio telescope. 

The Association for Radio Astronomy in Education A wonderful project promoting radio astronomy as a learning tool in Britain. Very nice FAQ.

Radio Amateurs

ON4EU, the MERLIN Radio Observatory
AF9Y, with DSP in Radio and Astrophysics.
Sporadic-E by G. Neil Spokes PhD, AB4YK.
CT1DMK with Amateur Radio Astronomy
Klaus Fenger, Radio Astronomy at DL0SHF. (German)
FL1ABL and F1GQD, with multiband Radio Astronomy from France.
NK8Y's Radio Astronomy page and observatory.
Astro Peiler Stockert ( DL0EF )
Dr. William Lonc, SJ and his Observatory.[VE1WPL]
VK2ZTO and his radio astronomy projects.
W7HR with lots of amateur radio astronomy.
10 GHz Radio Astronomy experiments by CT1DMK.
Radio Astronomy experiments with a 5.6 m Dish by CT1DMK.
Radio Astronomy at the University of Indianapolis, WA9BVS.
Iowa State 1.4 GHz Radio Telescope project.
The Red Lodge Small Array Radio Telescope. ( KF7KN )
WC9C with a Radio Astronomy page.
Amateur Radio Astronomy from Australia, VK2ZTO.
Experiments in Radio Astronomy by OH2AUE.
Radio Astronomy notes by WS6G.
A 30 MHz Radio Observatory by VK2TIP.
Amateur Radio Astronomy by VK6ZT.
DC7UP and his design for a radio telescope.
Amateur Radio Astronomy from Australia.
A homebrew Dicke Radiometer for Amateur Radio Astronomy by OH2AVE.
Astronomy by Wavelength.
Radio Astronomy Observatories World Wide.

Jim Hardy is having success working with small dishes at 12 Ghz.

Florence and Alain Nierveze have been observing for 10 years. Their website is very informative in both French and English. 

Hans Michlmayr has one of the best amateur observatories around. This is a must visit.

AARO Aalborg Amateur Radio Astronomical Observatory a great Hydrogen line site by Steffen Peterson in Denmark.

Raul Alvarez, a long time amateur radio astronomer, also interested in weather and seismology has a new web page.

Luis Cupido's (CT1DMK) web page.

Randy Stegemeyer's 5.2 m dish.

Darrel Emerson's Homepage A professional radio astronomer with the NRAO, Darrel has some great stuff here which applies to amateurs. Be sure to look at the links he has to the QST article he published.

Mike Gingell Check out Mike's pictures from the 1996 and 98 SARA conferences.

James R. Graham searches the sky with MegaLith II.

Radio Astronomy Supplies where you can get lots of great hardware for radio astronomy.

William Lonc's homepage at St. Mary's University

Reinhart Smit's radio astronomy home page

Bill Walker has a nice radio astronomy page which shows details of his observatory and observations.

OH2AUE has a superb page with a diagram of his 11 GHz Dicke switched radiometer, and a bookshelf magnetometer for detecting auroras. Lots of other great stuff from frigid but heart warming Finland.

Meteor Radio Observations

 International Meteor Organization Radio Page has plenty of information to get you started observing meteors by radio reflections from VHF transmitters.

Meteor Observations at the University of Ghent. They have an automated meteor radio observatory which regularly posts its findings in an informative graphical format. You will be able to see the daily and monthly trends which you can expect from your observations.

The American Meteor Society has sponsored radio meteor observation programs like the AMS Radiometer Project coordinated by James Richardson.

Great collection of meteor recordings and spectrograms from Germany.

Nice NASA page about meteor echoes.

FTP of radio meteor bulletins.
 

Jupiter

Voyager Planetary Science Info (Great for Teachers).

University of Florida Radio Observatory Jupiter sound files and prediction tables.

Advice from the Univ. of Florida about receiving Jupiter.

JPL Radio Observation of Comet Shoemaker-Levy press release.

Another Jupiter recording, this one at a John Kraus site. 

See Links on Our Jupiter Page

Professional Observatories

Gallery of Radio Telescopes A picture gallery of antennas.

Arecibo Observatory

National Radio Astronomical Observatory

Haystack Radio Observatory

Haystack Radio Observatory Small Radiotelescope Project

Pulsars

Survey/Skymaps

FIRST Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty centimeters A great opportunity to do armchair radio astronomy.

Multi-Wavelength Milky Way - Beautiful images at a variety of wavelengths.

The VizieR Catalog Service with many hundreds of catalogs.

SETI - The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

SETI Institute

 SETI League

SETIQuest Magazine

SERENDIP A search that piggybacks other radiotelescope investigations.

 Project Phoenix Privately funded target search of NASA's high resolution survey.

Harvard SETI Home Page

SETI Endeavor concentrates mainly on SETI related topics. This site I hosts the archive for the SETI and Argus mailing lists maintained by the SETI League,Inc.

SETIFOX is the site of Daniel Fox where he can set you up with the right equipment and software to do SETI.

Interactive Drake Equation Page.

Solar

 Advanced Composition Explorer NASA mission to study the solar wind.

Daily updated ACE data which you can compare to your radio observations.

Laboratory for Astronomy and Solar Physics

Solar/Terrestrial Activity Report

Solar/Terrestrial Dispatch

NOAA alerts and flare notices updated as needed every 30 minutes.

NOAA Data

Good flare listing throughout the day.

List of TYPE II/III/IV bursts from WAVES/WIND satellite. And HERE.

Bruny Island Radio Spectrometer

Australian solar site:
Main Page.
Current Data.
Radio spectrograph while sun is up in Australia.

Hiraiso Solar Terrestrial Research Center, a Japanese radio site.

ETHZ PLASMA AND RADIO ASTROPHYSICS GROUP, a European site.

Current Digitized H-alpha Video Image of the Sun from New Mexico.

Daily images in different wavelengths:
http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/images/latest.html
National Solar Observatory / Sacramento, Peak NSO CORONAL DATA.
http://www.bbso.njit.edu/cgi-bin/LatestImages

Other Links

William A. Wetzel's Radio Science Pages

Check out this great Virtual Radio Telescope

Universe Today. Weekly space and astronomy news update.

Society of Amateur Scientists

Science Hobbyist Web Page

Interactive Physics Problem Set

Space and Astronomy News

Radio Astronomy Shops

Fox Delta Radio shop - Buy radio astronomy receiver & other products on-line