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Radio Astronomy, Technology, and the Noisy World Classroom Exercises in Radio Frequency Interference
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What is radio astronomy?
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The Radio Sky
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The Optical Sky PerseusAuriga Taurus Camelopardus
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What emits radio waves? Recipe for Radio Waves Hot Gases Spectral lines Electrons and magnetic fields
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Big Point: Any accelerating charge emits radio waves!
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Big Point # 2: Celestial Objects at Enormous Distances Appear “dim” 0.00000000000000000000000001 watt/m 2 /Hz !!
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The Rest of the Story: What else emits radio waves?
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The Observatory in Green Bank
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The Rest of the Rest of the Story Satellites!
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The GBT: Why does it look so funny?
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The GBT October, 1999
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