AstroPhy Ghana - IAU Office of Astronomy for Development https://astro4dev.org/category/flagship-3/astrophy-ghana/ Astronomy for a better world! Wed, 18 Oct 2023 08:27:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://astro4dev.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/cropped-03_OAD_symbol_colour_2-32x32.jpg AstroPhy Ghana - IAU Office of Astronomy for Development https://astro4dev.org/category/flagship-3/astrophy-ghana/ 32 32 Radio Astronomy Training for University Students in Ghana https://astro4dev.org/radio-astronomy-training-for-university-students-in-ghana/ Wed, 18 Oct 2023 08:27:02 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=28355 AstroPhy Ghana 2023 was a one-week, residential radio astronomy training school in Ghana. It focused on Astronomy Instrumentation and Observations Techniques targeting undergraduate and graduate university students. Its objective was to equip students with skills in Python programming, astronomical technical instrumentation, data reduction, analysis, and observational techniques. The primary aim of AstroPhy was to introduce [...]

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]]> Overview: AstroPhy Ghana https://astro4dev.org/overview-astrophy-ghana/ Tue, 10 Jan 2023 09:51:47 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=26628 The project AstroPhy Ghana aims to train Senior High Schools (SHS)/University level 100 students within Accra in Ghana and introduce the students to basic python programming language, astronomy observation and data reduction. A table-top radio telescope (TTRT) will be built using a software-defined radio as a receiver, an amplifier and a horn as an antenna [...]

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