Introduction to the Project

In 2020 the Diocese of Wollongong will be joining Space Australia in building our own do it your self radio telescopes. The Space Australia Webpage for the Project is:

https://spaceausscope.com/our-project/

However in DOW we will use this and individual team blogs to track our progress. We will communicate with the SpaceAus teams using Slack.

To give you some background here are some links to project information

• Project Website: https://spaceausscope.com/ (also see http://spaceaustralia.com/news/community-science-project-diy-radio-telescope )

• Project Overview: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OmnqajNfkKFP6BDKG1cXxpNnTDhnOSZrgEN5rX-NNko/edit

• Linking the DIY telescope to science: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hbmPvzVuMl92XQRY07IlZQV3AGB6im8Np9qp6YTT4sw/edit

• Some early results from another team: https://spaceaustralia.com/news/diy-radio-telescope-sees-first-light

We have introduced some students to particpate there is a short video from the Sydney Morning Herald https://www.smh.com.au/national/these-students-are-making-a-radio-telescope-out-of-scrap-20200205-5iy5w.html