Due to Covid-19 measures, the Dwingeloo Radio Telescope will be closed to visitors until the end of 2020. Group tours on requests in 2021 might be possible. Online demonstrations (in Dutch) are announced here or can be viewed here again.
Jan van MuijlwijkAmateur TV reception in the DT
For the first time ever we entered in an amateur television…
Meteors live stream August 12, 2020
Half an hour live stream demonstration on Wednesday, August 12 at 20:00 CEST. Simon Bijlsma and Frans de Jong explained and showed how you can observe meteors (the Perseids) by means of reflections from radio waves on the meteor trails.
Historical observation repeated: occultation of the Crab Nebula by the Moon
On Saturday morning, July 18, 2020, the moon passed in front of the Crab Nebula (M1) very early. Approximately every 9 years such an occultation is visible from the Netherlands. In November 1955 this was the very first observation with the Dwingeloo Radio Telescope. Paul Boven and Hans van der Meer performed this historical observation again with the radio telescope.
Comet C / 2020 F3 (NEOWISE) above the radio telescope
Comet C / 2020 F3 (NEOWISE) is still beautiful in the…
Moon bounce live stream July 19, 2020
After a first live stream this year in which we pointed the telescope at the Sun, we turned the telescope to the Moon last July 19. More than 110 viewers watched how we sent signals to the Moon and then catched the reflection against the Moon.
National Sun Watching Day 2020 live stream
During the KNVWS National Sun Watching Day July 5, 2020, live streaming from the radio telescope was performed twice, while the radio telescope was pointed at the Sun and explanations were given about the radio telescope and the radio waves emitted by the Sun.
EUCARA 2020
CAMRAS in Dwingeloo would host the EUCARA conference September 2020. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, CAMRAS cannot organize the conference now. For the time being, CAMRAS's plan is to invite you to EUCARA in the spring of 2021.
One of the first radio amateurs to decode beacons from ESA’s OPS-SAT
In December 2019, the Dwingeloo Radio Telescope was one of the first three ground stations to receive data from the ESA satellite OPS-SAT. Because of that, it received a certificate from ESA.
