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RE: Spectacular all sky view from Yarragadee

From: <Chris.Phillips_at_email.protected>
Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 23:35:17 +1000

Yeah I was think that myself! Parkes went to a lot of effort to RFI shield their webcam

But a 64m doing pulsar at < 1 GHz is not the same as a 12m geodesy antenna of course.

But when will you make a movie of the night sky passing across?

Cheers
Chris
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From: owner-vlbiobs_at_atnf.<!--nospam-->csiro.au [owner-vlbiobs_at_atnf.<!--nospam-->csiro.au] On Behalf Of Steven Tingay [Steven.Tingay_at_icrar.<!--nospam-->org]
Sent: Thursday, 10 May 2012 11:30 PM
To: Brett Reid
Cc: VLBI observers; moblas5; Martin; Ed Himwich; KL7RA
Subject: Re: Spectacular all sky view from Yarragadee

Is it CCD-based? These things are great sources of RFI.

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 9:18 PM, Brett Reid <Brett.Reid_at_utas.<!--nospam-->edu.au> wrote:
>Hi Everyone,
>I just had to rave about the All Sky Camera that Jim Lovell got me to
>install at Yarragadee. This was done last week with the help of the SLR
>staff when I was there. They did all the hard work, like pulling the cable
>and burying the conduit, while I attended to the VLBI antenna feed.
>
>Look at the attached image.
>It was taken a short time ago, a few hours after sunset and a few hours
>before the moon comes up in Western Australia.
>You can see the VLBI antenna. The lights on the left are from the VLBI
>equipment hut and the other antennas at Yarragadee. You can clearly see the
>Milky Way, the Southern Cross and the Pointers. There is a line going from
>the left up to the region between the Pointers and the Southern Cross. This
>line would be the green ranging laser operated by the MOBLAS 5 staff.
>
>The camera is roughly 25 metres east of the VLBI antenna, on a fence pole.
>North is at the top of the image. It represents the sky you would see if you
>lay on your back with the top of your head pointing north.
>
>You can see why the Yarragadee site is so good for satellite laser ranging
>because the sky is really clear.
>
>The Katherine site also has an All Sky Camera, although the sky there is not
>normally as clear. You can make out the Southern Cross there as well this
>evening. Maybe the moon coming up later will wash it out.
>
>Hobart will get an All Sky camera in the coming weeks.
>
>You can get live updates of the AuScope web cameras from:
>http://auscope.phys.utas.edu.au/webcams.html
>
>I reckon it is pretty impressive. Thanks to the Yarragadee staff, Martin at
>Katherine, Jamie McCallum and Jim.
>
>
>Regards,
>Brett
>
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>Observatory Manager, Radio Astronomy Group
>University of Tasmania, School of Mathematics and Physics
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>0407 955 283 mobile
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