The Exeter Radio telescope Project

[Channel Hopper]

XRT-C (for Caradon, Cornwall)

I'm not sure if I've posted this before but earlier this month they completed the installation of the 4.5m dish and turned it on, looking for hydrogen in order to weigh the galaxy.

http://www.xrt-c.co.uk/

 

[s-band]

Interesting "How we did it" pages on the site including pics of dish mounting XRT-C | Build Day 8 – Mounting the Dish

I keep lusting after these 4.5 Meter MESH DISH KIT (F/D=0.45)
They have a prototype 3m on special offer at the moment but for collection only:-(

 

[Terryl]

The total weight of the galaxy as measured by humans will be off by quite a bit as they have not been able to detect "Dark Matter", without that figure the galaxy will be much much lighter then what it should be.

They also don't have a firm figure for the mass of the super massive black hole at the center.

And if they forget to add the weight of my X wife it will be way off.