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Bob Watson ๐Ÿ“ก

@bobwatson.icu

Scientist using Planck, Quijote, eMERLIN, and help build SKA region centres

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Oh dear this seems familiar

15.02.2026 11:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Or "it's Friday it's five to five"

10.02.2026 17:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Watching Saturday football results via telex wanting for Basil Bush

10.02.2026 17:19 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I assume Davros assumed the meeting had a typo and it was all about him!

22.01.2026 12:23 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Starlink in your backyard: A DIY approach to satellite monitoring and data analysis | Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union | Cambridge Core Starlink in your backyard: A DIY approach to satellite monitoring and data analysis - Volume 20 Issue S385

Forgot about this, finally offically published - meanwhile I've been working on the next version
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

19.01.2026 11:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿ˜‰

14.01.2026 20:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Only scored thirty points too!

14.01.2026 17:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Also call Sapphire & Steel, as Manchester Airport(s) and Piccadilly seem to be adrift in the space-time continuum!

14.01.2026 12:41 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
2025 year in review: the SKA telescopes begin to take shape
2025 year in review: the SKA telescopes begin to take shape YouTube video by SKA Observatory

In case you missed it, SKAO posted a really nice 2025 Year in Review video of all the progress has been made towards construction of the two telescopes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6er... ๐Ÿงช๐Ÿ”ญ๐Ÿ“ก

05.01.2026 12:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 10 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Project for the new year

01.01.2026 12:18 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I too got posh Turkish Delights

25.12.2025 12:53 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Onedin Line?

23.11.2025 16:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I feel the current "what" is used in a difference sense, more akin to the "what" in "What refresh hell is this?"

22.11.2025 10:47 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Jodrell internal symposium and 80th anniversary celebrations

21.11.2025 12:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Unfortunately Iremember I lost a chapter of my thesis to one of these getting mangled up. Did have a backup of an earlier version though

07.11.2025 10:17 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
(Left): Dimensions of the pyramidal horn that was selected as the reference design. The flare section has an aperture of 7.3 x 6.0โ€‰m, an edge slant length of 5.099โ€‰m, and an overall vertical height of 4.3โ€‰m. The rectangular waveguide section has an aperture of m and a height of 2.997m. The horn will be static, pointing at zenith, and will have a welded mesh conductive surface. The location of the feed is marked on the waveguide. (Right): Detailed design drawing showing the multipanel construction, consisting of 2.4 x 1.2 m mesh panels cut to size/shape and welded into steel angle frames. These are then bolted together to form a self-supporting structure.

(Left): Dimensions of the pyramidal horn that was selected as the reference design. The flare section has an aperture of 7.3 x 6.0โ€‰m, an edge slant length of 5.099โ€‰m, and an overall vertical height of 4.3โ€‰m. The rectangular waveguide section has an aperture of m and a height of 2.997m. The horn will be static, pointing at zenith, and will have a welded mesh conductive surface. The location of the feed is marked on the waveguide. (Right): Detailed design drawing showing the multipanel construction, consisting of 2.4 x 1.2 m mesh panels cut to size/shape and welded into steel angle frames. These are then bolted together to form a self-supporting structure.

Published in #RASTI RAS Techniques & instruments: "RHINO: a large horn antenna for detecting the 21โ€‰cm global signal", Bull et al. This is Fig. 1: to read the paper please visit academic.oup.com/rasti/articl... @oxfordacademic.bsky.social @royalastrosoc.bsky.social

31.10.2025 08:16 ๐Ÿ‘ 8 ๐Ÿ” 4 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

For a moment there, I thought the Grim Reaper was on the roof!

08.10.2025 10:41 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

While the article doesn't state it, it sounds like it might be away to recover some of the energy used, if there's a source of low-salt waste water

25.08.2025 17:12 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

What! An osmotic power plant to run a desalination plant?? Is it April first?

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

25.08.2025 16:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
NanoServer with  chocolate and creme coloured noctua fan

NanoServer with chocolate and creme coloured noctua fan

Had to replace that noisy fan with a nice quiet Noctua one

25.08.2025 15:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Picture of a recently unboxed Sipeed Nano Cluster with box

Picture of a recently unboxed Sipeed Nano Cluster with box

New toy arrived!

21.08.2025 06:39 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

@maggief.bsky.social Happy Birthday Mags! Doing anything special?

16.08.2025 16:48 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Hi Meredith, It's a frequency (10.6 to 12.9GHz) vs time (increasing upwards over 10 minutes) waterfall plot. So you can see the 8 bands. I do have a before, in slightly different format. As you can see things have got a lot busier

10.08.2025 16:31 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Ugh! The lowest band is now getting used sometimes - the one next to the reserved astronomy band at 10.6GHz

10.08.2025 07:46 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Okay back on air!

And there's about 1000 more Starlinks

10.08.2025 07:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Before and work in progress

07.08.2025 14:54 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I've been neglecting my babies. Found something sweet in the overgrowth

07.08.2025 10:33 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hi! I'm a post-doc at Manchester working on SRCNet and RadoForegrounds synchrotron emission and do a bit of Radio Astronomy from home

02.08.2025 11:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

yes

02.08.2025 11:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

@bot.astronomy.blue signup

02.08.2025 10:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0