The 3 meter radio telescope is controlled remotely by the University of Cape Town thanks to RadioUniversePRO software: it allows work out plenty of radio astronomy programs for education. PrimaLuceLab team completed the installation and recorded the first light!
Weather conditions in UK are generally bad for astronomy since rains are very common in all the year. But for radio astronomy, especially at 1420 MHz, the weather condition is not a problem and PrimaLuceLab radio telescopes have been design for this task too! That’s why we just installed the…
PrimaLuceLab SPIDER 500A, the 5 meter diameter professional radio telescope, has been installed at the Sharjah Center for Astronomy & Space Sciences, close to Dubai in the United Arabic Emirates. In the picture, from the right: Filippo Bradaschia (PrimaLuceLab president), Issam S. Abujami (SCASS IT & System Specialist), Professor Ilias…
Radio astronomy is a fascinating science and it studies the Universe by detecting radio emission from many objects like the Sun, the Milky way, planets, galaxies and nebulas. In this presentation Filippo Bradaschia, PrimaLuceLab president and co-founder, gives an overview on radio astronomy history and basic physics. Then he introduces the most important radio sources in the Universe and the SPIDER affordable radio telescopes developed by PrimaLuceLab with Radio2Space brand. These instruments allow any school, university, museum or science institute to make real radio astronomy with powerful but affordable, compact and easy to use radio telescopes.
We installed one of our SPIDER 300A advanced radio telescopes in Dr. Karl Remeis Observatory for the Astronomy Institute of Erlangen-Nuernberg University in Bamberg, Germany. The radio telescope is composed by the 3 meter antenna with computerized weatherproof mount installed in front of the observatory and the 1420 MHz H142-One radio astronomy…
The advanced radio telescope SPIDER 300A has been installed in New Mexico Tech college in Socorro (USA), headquarter of Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope operated by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO)! The new SPIDER 300A will be used for research in radio astronomy and for students alike. Astrophysics…
SPIDER 230C compact radio telescope has been chosen by Deggendorf Institute of Technology as instrument to introduce students to radio astronomy. Deggendorf Institute of Technology is a university in Bavaria (Germany) offering first level education in a modern environment equipped with the latest technology. After our first visits in which…
Taurus A is the radio source in Taurus constellation that corresponds to the Crab Nebula (M1), the supernova remnant exploded on July 4, 1054 and noted by Chinese and Arabian astronomers of the time. Since then, the gas cloud has expanded and today is over 6 light years large. In this article we see how the SPIDER 300A radio telescope “discovered” it by capturing the radio waves emitted by Taurus A and converting them into a radio map, a real photograph in radio waves of this nebula. In fact it is believed that Taurus A emits radio waves for synchrotron radiation caused by electrons in fast spiral motions around magnetic field lines generated by the pulsar inside it. Thanks to the WEB300-5 3 meter diameter antenna and the 1420 MHz H142-One receiver, the SPIDER radio telescope was able to easily record the weak signal and, thanks to the precise mount and pointing system, it generated a radio map with the same technique used by professional radio telescopes.
Does light pollution affect astrophotography? Is it possible to take pictures of galaxies, nebulae or star clusters with a telescope also from the light polluted backyard by using narrowband filters? Discover the result of our test comparing the image of a nebula recorded with the same telescope and the same…
Is it possible to have a single telescope to observe and take pictures of any object in the Universe, easy to use, power and transport? Is it possible to have a telescope that has the power of a small astronomical observatory but with the portability of an amateur telescope? After more…
