Low-elevation skymapping at 2.45 Ghz

[Major Variola (ret)]

At 10:40 PM 6/16/04 -0700, Morlock Elloi wrote:
>
>0.25" glass will cost you 2-2.5 dB.

Perhaps there are speciality glasses or
polymer sheets which reduce that loss.


>> At sufficiently good mechanical stabilization and gain, you will
>> encounter perhaps
>
>The best way to do this is to mount the narrow-angle dish *and* video
camera on
>the same mount, then use simple circuitry to superimpose white circle
on the
>center of the image when signal exceeds some threshold (or vary the
size with
>signal level.) The results could be startling.

Nice idea; the radioastronomers do something like this (cross-band
correlation)
so they can see what their sources might correspond to.