akarshsimha's blog

It was a really successful and wonderful trip. Probably one of the most fruitful trips organized by BAS so far. The attendees were mostly Engineers from Texas Instruments, which made the trip highly educative. The primary agenda of the trip was to learn, in detail, the functioning of the Radio Telescope, the concepts and electronics behind it - and this purpose was completely met.

We started off from Texas Instruments, Bagmane Tech Park, C.V. Raman Nagar at about 8:30 AM. With a few pick ups on the way, we made it to Gauribidanur pretty fast. On the way, we discussed about radio astronomy, antennas, interferometry, and GPS! We met Dr. Ramesh of IIA, with whom we had been in correspondence, and he extended us excellent hospitality.

The posts in this thread that I posted on our mailing list might help those who are trying to choose a telescope to buy.

I've my own weird way to process wide field astrophotos, which I've blogged about here:

http://kstars.wordpress.com/2008/03/08/processing-orion/

 That's Shashank's Orion shot from Shivanahalli used as an example.