With the 21 cm hydrogen line from Kootwijk to Dwingeloo
This year marks the 70th anniversary since the 21 cm hydrogen…
Manuel SteinbrecherEUCARA-2021 Web Conference, April 17, 2021 – Call for Participation and for Presentations
Deadline for registration for participation: April 4, 2021. Deadline for submitting abstracts: January 25, 2021.
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…
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.
Cees BassaIndian Moon landing followed by radio telescope
This year 2019 is a busy year for lunar exploration. On January…
