Re: minutes Physics Theorynet meeting September 24, 2022

[Michael WADNESS <mjwadness verizon net>]

On a related note, I know of a QuarkNet teacher in VT who had a student 
build a relatively small radio telescope for relatively little money and 
parts mostly from Home Depot.  Although I’m not positive on the details 
but I believe it was sensitive to hydrogen emissions and could be used to 
measure the spin of the Milky Way galaxy.

Mike

> On Oct 3, 2022, at 12:27 PM, Ken Olum <kdo cosmos phy tufts edu> wrote:
> 
>   From: "Taylor, Tomasz" <t taylor northeastern edu>
>   Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2022 16:18:21 +0000
> 
>   While I don't think we can use Theorynet money for Tufts
>   construction, we can certainly contribute to the infrastructure
>   necessary for operating it from classrooms. How would this work?
> 
> I don't have much idea.  If I can use it from my laptop in my office, I
> use it from my laptop in a classroom (assuming the net is working
> properly there).  There will be a control computer that sits at Tufts,
> physically wired to the telescope.  I would connect to this computer
> over the net to use the telescope.  I suppose you could say that this
> computer is "infrastructure necessary for operating it from classrooms".
> But it is infrastructure necessary for operating it at all, so maybe it
> would not qualify.
> 
>                                        Ken
> 
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