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TV Shoot at HartRAO - 2013-07-04
On July 4 HartRAO hosted a TV shoot organised by Trishana Singh of Urbanbrew for YoTv - DigiKnow, based around questions about radio astronomy.
The pictures below capture some of the action.
Left click on image for large version. Credit: Marion West /
HartRAO
PhD student Jabulani Maswanganye, who is researching masers found in
star-forming regions, volunteered to talk about spectrocopy, the technique
he uses to study the masers. He
is seen here being filmed on the north ladder of the 26m radio telescope,
with the 15m telescope beyond.
Left click on image for large version. Credit: Marion West /
HartRAO
Sunelle Otto is an engineer working on the African VLBI Network project.
She talked about how we run the radio telescope and about the pulsars that
we observe with it. Here
she is seen in the telescope control room explaining how the computers
control the telescope and carry out the observing programmes.
Left click on image for large version. Credit: Marion West /
HartRAO
Accurate position measurement using GPS is one of the spin-off sciences that
relies on having radio telescopes to provide absolute positions on the
Earth. Here MSc student Cilence Munghemezulu, who has been studying the
movements of the African tectonic plate using GPS, is seen next to the GPS
base-station antenna, preparing
for the shoot.