Monday 21 February 2011
CALLISTO FIRST LIGHT
Cutting some Trees.
Some trees were cut down in order to maximize the CALLISTO antenna observing time. 1February 2011
Motor Driver Maintenance
The motor driver that is used to track the Sun during the day, pointing CALLISTO antenna to the Sun, experienced some problems in the mechanics.
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| The motor driver during the maintenaince |
The motor was successful bring back to Trinity College Dublin workshop were was repaired. Many thanks to Dave, TCD workshop Manager.
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| Joe, Peter and Dave in the Mechanical workshop. |
On February the 18th 2011 the Motor Driver was seated back in Operation.
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| Removing the motor driver from the mount. |
Wednesday 1 September 2010
Now where is that solar radio burst!
The "Rosse Observatory" control room has improved somewhat from a few weeks back. Once the broadband connection is hooked up, we'll be able to operate the equipment remotely from Dublin.
Tuesday 31 August 2010
Tracking the Sun from Birr!
By lunch time on the second day we got the antenna into tracking mode. The photo shows the antenna pointing towards the Sun. The antenna pointing can be updated as often as every few seconds, therefore enabling us to continuously track the Sun from sunrise to sunset.
Setting up the control box
All the control and data-acquisition electronics are housed in a large weather proof metal box that is connected to the Rosse Observatory control room. In a few weeks time, we'll be able to communicated with this from the comfort of our offices in TCD.
Data, data everywhere ...
Following a good builder's breakfast (sausage, pudding, eggs and rashers all in the one bread roll!), we fired up the control PC and started testing communications with the antenna drive motor and Callisto receiver. After some minor crossed-wires, the electronics appeared to be working well.
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