Miller D.F. Basics of Radio Astronomy for the Goldstone-Apple Valley Radio Telescope

California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, 1998, 102 pagesIn a collaborative effort, the Science and Technology Center (in Apple Valley, California), the Apple Valley Unified School District, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and NASA have converted a 34-meter antenna at NASA's Deep Space Network's Goldstone Complex into a unique interactive research and teaching instrument available to classrooms throughout the United States, via the Internet. The Science and Technology Center is a branch of the Lewis Center for Educational Research.This workbook was developed as part of the training of teachers and volunteers who will be
operating the telescope. The students plan observations and operate the telescope from the Apple
Valley location using Sun workstations. In addition, students and teachers in potentially 10,000
classrooms across the country will be able to register with the center’s Web site and operate the
telescope from their own classrooms.Overview: Discovering an Invisible Universe
The Properties of Electromagnetic Radiation
The Mechanisms of Electromagnetic Emissions
Effects of Media
Effects of Motion and Gravity
Sources of Radio Frequency Emissions
Mapping the Sky
Our Place in the Universe