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[ngc2237rosette]

My next lab experiment will be at jodrell bank on the 42-ft radio telescope, we start tomorrow. I'm scared!

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[gothadh]

Just don't break it! ;-)

Good luck and have fun!

[ngc2237rosette]

haha
thank you missy, and I hope you feel better soon

[nozza]

Cool! What you actually doing on it?

[ngc2237rosette]

"Crab Pulsar
An Introduction to Radio Telescopes and Pulsar Astronomy"
there's actually quite alot of scarryness about it, amoungst which are electronics, fourier transforms (could never ge my head round them), and programming

it's going to be an interesting and usefull experiment, I've never used a real telescope like this before. but it seems like a hard experiment, harder than alot/most of the 3rd year experiments :s

[nozza]

Well it sounds interesting and I'm sure you'll be fine :)

[sir_ann]

That's made me go all squishy inside. Like a schoolkid's dream happening in real. When I were a lad radio telescopy was awe inspiring, the mysterious leading edge of science, the realm of Sputnik, Telstar, Yuri Gagarin and limitless imagination. Go girl!

[ngc2237rosette]

*grins*
s'gonna be so cool to be actually 'working' there!

[icklespanishtom]

Cool stuff. Wave at all the little aliens on my behalf.

[ngc2237rosette]

and we're gonna be studying pulsars, which when first detected were dubbed LGM 'Little Green Men' cos the regularity of the pulses were thought to maybe be inteligent life.
I'll wave at them for you

[demon_cock]

That is the awesomest most awesome thing of awesome ever!

[ngc2237rosette]

I'm glad you're excited, someone has to be on my behalf cos I'm just scared that I'm gonna muck it all up!