SARA and Radio Jove 2025 Eastern Conference
Green Bank West Virginia (WV) Green Bank Observatory (GBO)
June 7 – 11, 2025
Conference Agenda
All times are for Green Bank WV, which is eastern daylight time (i.e., UTC – 4 hours)
June 7, 2025 (Saturday)
11:00 AM |
Jay Wilson and Dave Lacko provide guided tours of public exhibits |
|
Noon |
Lunch on your own (e.g., Starlight Café) |
|
1:00 PM |
Beginning Radio Astronomy (RA) - "What's RA all about?" |
Dave Lacko |
2:00 PM |
Scope In a Box (Hands On Demonstrations) |
Dave Lacko, Jay Wilson, Ted Cline |
5:00 PM |
Dinner on your own |
|
6:00 PM |
Scope in a Box Observations |
|
7:00 PM |
Observations and Drakes Lounge Discussions |
|
June 8, 2025 (Sunday)
11:30 AM |
Lunch at GBO Cafeteria |
|
12:30 PM |
Registration at Jansky Lab Building |
|
1:00 PM |
Welcome and Administrative Announcements |
Marcus Fisher |
1:15 PM |
Introduction to Radio Astronomy (RA) |
Ed Harfmann & Charles Osborne |
2:00 PM |
20-meter dish training using SkyNet – Pulsar Profiles |
Stephen Tzikas |
3:00 PM |
Refreshment Break |
|
3:15 PM |
40-foot Telescope Training |
Skip Crilly |
5:00 PM |
Dinner at GBO Cafeteria |
|
6:00 PM + |
Observations using Scope In a Box, 40', 20 m, and Radio Jove |
|
|
Flea Market |
|
|
Drakes Lounge Technical Discussions |
|
June 9, 2025 (Monday)
7:45 AM |
Breakfast at GBO Cafeteria |
|
8:30 AM |
Registration at Jansky Lab Building |
|
9:00 AM |
Welcome and Introductions |
Marcus Fisher |
9:15 AM |
SARA Sections Overview / Update |
Stephen Tzikas |
9:45 AM |
Using 20m Skynet Dish at Green Bank Observatory to observe integrated hydrogen spectra of galaxies outside Milky Way |
Jason Burnfield & Dr. Andrew Thornett |
10:15 AM |
Refreshment Break |
|
10:30 AM |
Doppler Mapping five nearby galaxies using the 20m Skynet dish at Greenbank Observatory |
Jason Burnfield & Dr. Andrew Thornett |
11:15 AM |
A Report on the new Radio Jove TFD Square Array at Appalachian State University's Dark Sky Observatory |
Jacob Hansman, Dr. Richard Gray, and Dr. Michael Briley |
Noon |
Lunch at GBO Cafeteria |
|
1:00 PM |
Guest Speaker – The 21 CM Line and Neutral Hydrogen |
Dr. Emmanuel Fonseca |
2:00 PM |
Long Wavelength Array Front End Electronics |
Whitham Reeve and Brian Hicks |
2:45 PM |
Refreshment Break |
|
3:00 PM |
Overview of the Stockert Radio Observatory |
Dr. Wolfgang Hermann |
3:45 PM |
Open Microphone |
|
4:00 PM |
Using the Leiden/Argentine/Bonn (LAB) Survey Database to Simulate Hydrogen Line Observations of Nearby Galaxies |
Eduard Mol & Jason Burnfield |
4:45 PM |
A new cheap radio telescope design using solar cooker parabolic reflector dishes |
Dr. Andrew Thornett |
5:15 PM |
Dinner at GBO Cafeteria |
|
6:30 PM + |
Observations using Scope In a Box, 40', 20 m, and Radio Jove |
|
|
Flea Market |
|
|
Drakes Lounge Technical Discussions |
|
June 10, 2025 (Tuesday)
7:45 AM |
Breakfast at GBO Cafeteria |
|
9:00 AM |
Administrative Announcements |
Marcus Fisher |
9:15 AM |
Detection of Jupiter Radiation at 77GHz by a Small Single Dish |
Dr. Dimitry Fedorov |
9:45 AM |
SARA Outreach |
Tom Crowley |
10:15 AM |
Refreshment Break |
|
10:30 AM |
Inductors, They Give us “L” |
Bruce Randall |
11:00 AM |
Narrow bandwidth pulse pair observations using an interferometer |
Skip Crilly |
11:30 AM |
Guest Speaker – Radio Transients |
Anoj Khadka |
Noon |
Lunch at GBO Cafeteria |
|
1:00 PM |
Introducing Radio Jove 2.1 |
Chuck Higgins |
1:30 PM |
Motivation and Communication in Citizen Science |
Nicole Gugliucci |
2:00 PM |
Science Projects using Radio Jove Data |
Dave Typinski |
2:30 PM |
Calibration Methods |
Chuck Higgins, Larry Dodd, Jim Sky |
3:00 PM |
Refreshment Break |
|
3:15 PM |
A Polarimeter Antenna for Radio Jove |
Francisco Reyes |
3:45 PM |
Radio Jove Demonstrations |
Jim Sky, John Cox, & Matthew Grieco |
5:00 PM |
Closing Day Announcements |
Marcus Fisher |
5:15 PM |
Dinner at GBO Cafeteria |
|
6:30 PM + |
Observations using Scope In a Box, 40', 20 m, and Radio Jove |
|
|
Flea Market |
|
|
Drakes Lounge Technical Discussions |
|
June 11, 2025 (Wednesday)
7:45 AM |
Breakfast at GBO Cafeteria |
|
9:00 AM |
Administrative Announcements & Elections |
Marcus Fisher |
10:00 |
Open Mic |
|
11:00 AM |
Technical Tours of GBO Control Room and 140 Foot Telescope |
Sophie Saint Georges |
12:30 PM |
Lunch at GBO Cafeteria |
|