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Module

Community Labs

Work contributed by the classrooms and clubs that have taken this hardware and run with it.

4 lessons, in the order they are meant to be worked through

Students setting up a horn telescope in a school parking lot.

The lessons in the other six modules came out of the DSPIRA summer cohorts. This module covers work beyond the program. Schools, after-school programs, and amateur astronomy clubs built the hardware and conducted their own observations.

If your group is using this material and you would like to be listed, see the associate research labs page.

4 lessons in this module

  1. Cosmic rays and radio, at the WISRD lab

    A student group running the horn telescopes alongside a cosmic ray detector, looking for radio from air showers

  2. Is the telescope good enough for the public?

    A WVU undergraduate tested the DSPIRA design against published values to see whether it holds up outside a classroom

  3. A hydrogen line project at PhysicsOpenLab

    An independent write-up of a 21 cm hydrogen line receiver, published as project documentation

  4. Somebody motorized a horn telescope

    An independent Instructables build that borrowed the DSPIRA horn design and put it on a motorized mount

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