radio telescopes Archives - IAU Office of Astronomy for Development https://astro4dev.org/tag/radio-telescopes/ Astronomy for a better world! Fri, 19 May 2023 11:06:18 +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 radio telescopes Archives - IAU Office of Astronomy for Development https://astro4dev.org/tag/radio-telescopes/ 32 32 Nigerian Project Develops DIY, Low Cost Radio Telescope for Teaching https://astro4dev.org/nigerian-project-develops-diy-low-cost-radio-telescope-for-teaching/ Fri, 19 May 2023 11:04:44 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=27769 This project developed an educational Do-IT-Yourself (DIY) low cost and portable hydrogen line radio telescope system for teaching radio astronomy techniques at university level in Nigeria. This telescope is capable of detecting and mapping the 21cm hydrogen line emission from the Milky Way Galaxy. The first phase of the project involved the preparation of a [...]

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]]> Overview: Bringing Radio Astronomy To Classrooms with Affordable Radio Telescopes https://astro4dev.org/overview-bringing-radio-astronomy-to-classrooms-with-affordable-radio-telescopes/ Mon, 13 Dec 2021 14:01:33 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=24327 Radio astronomy is a highly inter-disciplinary field involving the subjects mathematics, computer science, engineering, chemistry, biology and physics. This implies that for a successful generation of scientists and engineers to be raised, huge efforts must be made in order to ignite interest in these subjects at an early age. This project focuses on one such [...]

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