NASA Logo, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Skip Navigation (press 2)
Radio JOVE Banner

Three Columns

Welcome to the Radio JOVE Project !

Radio JOVE students and amateur scientists observe and analyze natural radio emissions of Jupiter, the Sun, and our galaxy.

  • Build and use your own Decametric Radio Telescope
  • Follow Live Observations Online
  • Teachers, See Our Lesson Plans and other Educational Materials

NEWS & FEATURES

Radio JOVE at 2012 Dayton Hamvention

Visit the Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers' booth at the 2012 Dayton ham radio "Hamvention", May 18-20 in Dayton, Ohio, U.S.A. for more information about Radio JOVE. SARA will be in Ball Arena, booth number 421 to promote amateur radio astronomy. They will have information and items related to the Radio JOVE project, along with information about the Society.

End of the latest Jupiter Season

March 1, 2012 marks the approximate end of the 2011-2012 Jupiter apparition. The "King of the Planets" is receding into the evening twilight, and is low in the sky before the nighttime ionosphere begins passing 20 MHz radio waves. There is always a chance that some Jovian radio storms will be observable over the coming weeks, but the odds of catching them are rapidly fading.

Jupiter will emerge from the morning twilight once again in August for a new observing season that is expected to run through March of 2013. As always, your RJ radiotelescope is great for observing Solar radio bursts, so keep monitoring the Sun, while you wait for the start of the next Jupiter observing later this year.

Radio JOVE at the 2011 Starry Night event

Gainesville, Florida — Radio astronomy was represented by several Radio JOVE members at the annual Starry Night event at the University of Florida on November 3rd.

Thumbnail of RJ participants at Starry Night
Radio JOVE participants (L to R) Dave Typinski, Francisco Reyes, and Wes Greenman.

Starry Night is a program designed to bring awareness of astronomy and science to the public by offering free activities and displays. The outdoor portion consisted of several telescopes viewing the Moon, Jupiter, and several close binary stars. Radio astronomy was represented by the Radio JOVE display.

The Radio JOVE exhibit consisted of a single dipole strung between two palm trees (it is Florida, after all!), a Jove receiver with a real-time strip chart, and an SDR-14 with a real-time spectrogram. Visitors were also treated to recorded examples of Jovian S-bursts and L-bursts.

More info:
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/education/starrynight.htm

collage of Radio JOVE observing

DON'T MISS THESE

The Radio JOVE Bulletin
Our newsletters contain useful and fascinating information for RJers.
Juno Mission on its way to Jupiter
Lego figurines launched with JunoNASA's next mission to Jupiter is on its way to make an in-depth study of the gas giant. Among the science to be conducted by Juno are high resolution measurements of Jupiter's magnetic fields and its auroral currents.
The Birthplace of Planetary Radio Astronomy
Jupiter's natural radio emissions were first discovered near Seneca, Maryland. In 2005, Radio JOVE and the Carnegie Institution Department of Terrestrial Magnetism recognized the 50th anniversary of this discovery and helped publicize this milestone with a variety of events and presentations.

chart trace horizontal rule

The Radio JOVE Project is a joint effort of

NASA Logo - nasa.gov