23 hours ago
This is a photo of my old, long gone, Inmarsat system built back in 1991 just before Desert Storm #1 - antenna was pointing at 64E Inmarsat IOR used by the CNN crew for live reporting from Baghdad. Tin can feed and FET LNA with 2 MMIC's after for line driver, AOR3000 RX. https://t.co/PIawDxz0Tl
24 hours ago
Parker Solar Probe X-Band downlink, huge signal as expected on 8430.952MHz, dish 25% obscured by local obstructions and elevation currently 11.28 degrees. https://t.co/RSSUqomPDo
1 day ago
When you observe a rogue AERO terminal.... I won't mention the particular airline/aircraft that caused so many call attempts in a short period of time... but let's just say it's on my do not fly list. https://t.co/tQmhNmPqA5
2 days ago
Last shot of Paker Solar Probe for tonight. Noise from my horizon starting to creep up. SNR came up a bit, but still not quite out of the woods. https://t.co/7kRp1ND59J
Tag Archives: planets
Mars and Saturn in June
It’s getting hot and atmospheric conditions are not the best for astrophotography, however stacking 5000 images does help a bit with the variable focus.
April Planets with some nice Glass
Spent some time with the big gas planets and Mars. Mars is closest to Earth since 2007 and is still pretty hard to see. Jupiter turned out nice. Saturn was a bit out of focus, seeing was not too good. … Continue reading
