Gharb is located at the westernmost point of the island of Gozo in Malta and this is where PrimaLuceLab Team installed a custom version of the COMPACT Observatory Station! COMPACT is the most affordable Observatory Station that comes with 2 meter diameter dome, alt-az mount and telescopes, cameras and remote…
Back in 2018 we installed the SPIDER 300A 3-meter diameter radio telescope at the Etscorn Observatory of New Mexico Tech university in Socorro New Mexico (USA) near the Very Large Array. Now we’re back to upgrade it with the Radio-over-Fiber kit for SPIDER radio telescopes that improves system performance by…
RadioUniversePRO is the most advanced software ever developed for radio astronomy with compact radio telescopes: it gives you all the power to control the different components of your radio telescope with an immediate and easy-to-use interface. You do not have to worry about using different softwares, RadioUniversePRO is your intuitive control and data acquisition interfaces with the radio telescope. RadioUniversePRO is not sold separately and is supplied only with SPIDER radio telescopes.
How does a radio telescope work? Discover how our technologies allow you to own and operate an affordable system to capture and analyze radio waves coming from space: in-house design, integration and test.
Would you like for us to build a radio telescope at your location? Our team is able to ship to you and install one or more of our radio telescopes – here what you need to know beforehand.
SPIDER 300A is the 3 meter diameter radio telescope that provides an affordable and compact solution for radio astronomy education and outreach! In this article we show the entire installation that we completed near Prague in Czech Republic on the behalf of a private user. In fact the SPIDER radio…
Compact SPIDER 300A radio telescope has been used to study the partial solar eclipse at 21 cm wavelength, with magnitude 0.89, in Hong Kong on 21st June, 2020. The radio telescope SPIDER 300A was designed and constructed by the PrimaLuceLab company, Italy. Radio flux density time curves (light curve) and a two-dimension mapping of the eclipse are presented in this paper. Standard radio data reduction methods were used to obtain the intensity time curve. We also adopted the semi-pipeline method for the reduction of data to obtain the same results as with the built-in software of the radio telescope SPIDER 300A. The total solar radio flux of the eclipse was found to reduce by maximum 55±5%, while the maximum eclipsed area of the same eclipse is 86.08%.
Our galaxy is an SBbc medium size and mass spiral type. It is only partially visible, since we are inside it; the plane of the disk and the thousands of stars it contains appear to us as a milky white stripe on the celestial vault, called the Milky Way. The Galaxy is composed of a central core, a bulge, a disk and a halo. In particular, the disc contains the spiral arms. The spiral nature of the Milky Way was confirmed through the study of the distribution of the HII regions, consisting mainly of bright nebulae of ionized hydrogen (HII) that form right inside the spiral arms. The spiral arms are regions of active formation of new stars, dominated by young stars, dust and gas.
In this conference paper, we present the development of radio astronomy in Hong Kong in 21 cm wavelength since 2006. We discuss the subtropical region with its usual cloudy condition in Hong Kong for launching radio astronomy. The MIT small radio telescope and Italy SPIDER radio telescope series were good starting points to create radio astronomy for a dense human populated region like Hong Kong. We present some interesting results with respect to these two types of radio telescopes. We also introduce the future possibility for the developing radio interferometry array in Hong Kong for research and teaching.
PrimaLuceLab team installed the BINO-SSA Observatory Station in Pampilhosa da Serra Space Observatory (PASO) in Portugal! BINO-SSA is the turn-key and affordable solution for Space Situational Awareness (SSA) and Space Surveillance and Tracking (SST) activities like the study of space debris and its classification. The version designed for Pampilhosa da…
