Thomas Telkamp
@telkamp.eu
Satellites, Radio Astronomy, SDR, Signal Processing, GPU. CTO Lacuna Space. Dwingeloo Radio Telescope.
We think a Tianwen-2 manoever happened early 7 June, as expected. With the Bochum telescope (@amsat-dl.org) and the Dwingeloo telescope, we observe that a) Tianwen-2 is close to the asteroid on the sky and b) the change in the line-of-sight velocity (Doppler) now almost matches that of the asteroid.
In preparation for Artemis II, the Bochum and Dwingeloo radio telescopes, configured as an interferometer, jointly observed quasar J2136+0041 at S-band. (Team: @radiotelescoop.bsky.social @telkamp.eu Bochum Observatory, Peter Gülzow DB2OS)
Happy new year! My all sky camera imaged the sky every 15 seconds and this picture shows what happened in the sky in 2025. It shows the length of the night and day with the hourglass shape, the monthly lunar cycle with the diagonal bands, the elevation of the Sun at local noon, and lots of clouds.
We have lost signal of Hakuto-R M2 Resilience! We saw the signal and its Lunar reflection close to each other before LOS, indicating that it was very close to the surface when the signal disappeared. Space is hard!
Measuring Radio Recombination Lines (RRL) with the Dwingeloo telescope (@radiotelescoop.bsky.social), in the Omega Nebula (M17/W38).
Measuring Radio Recombination Lines (RRL) with the Dwingeloo telescope (@radiotelescoop.bsky.social), in the Omega Nebula (M17/W38).
Imagine starting a car that hadn't run in 21 years, that's 15 billion miles away in interstellar space. That's what the NASA team just did with Voyager's thrusters. People are amazing. jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-v...
On the occasion of the @unesco.org International Day of Light, we created a 'light painting' using the Dwingeloo Telescope by mounting a light bulb at the focus for half an hour. #lightday2025 @idlofficial.bsky.social
Just listening to the Voyager 1 signal on a Wednesday evening. More than 23 light hours away (25 billion km). Of course with the historic @radiotelescoop.bsky.social!
A bit late, but here is some additional analysis of the Earth-Venus-Earth radar experiments with @radiotelescoop.bsky.social from March 22nd, 2025. It takes the 4 recordings at the Dwingeloo and Stockert telescopes and searches in Doppler frequency and Doppler rates for the radar reflections.
Just catching up on this excellent #RadioAstronomy work by ProAm group using the Dwingeloo Telescope. 🔭📡 They managed to fire a signal at Venus, and catch the reflection back on two antennas here on Earth! There is *lots* of nice working coming from this group! 👏👏👏 Blog + link to script below
Radiotelescoop Dwingeloo@radiotelescoop.bsky.social · last yr.We used the historic Dwingeloo telescope to bounce a signal off the surface of Venus, and receive its echo! This marks only the second time that amateurs have achieved an 'EVE' (Earth-Venus-Earth) bounce. Venus was about 40 million kilometers from Earth. www.camras.nl/en/blog/2025...
We hebben vandaag de gedeeltelijke #zonsverduistering ook met de radiotelescoop waargenomen. De periode dat de radioruis van de zon afnam doordat de maan ervoor zat, was iets langer dan de optische eclips. Dat komt doordat de radiogolven van de zon ook uit de corona rondom de zon komen.
We used the historic Dwingeloo telescope to bounce a signal off the surface of Venus, and receive its echo! This marks only the second time that amateurs have achieved an 'EVE' (Earth-Venus-Earth) bounce. Venus was about 40 million kilometers from Earth. www.camras.nl/en/blog/2025...
Zooming in on the final minutes of the descent burn, we can see the braking burn transitioning into a hover around 17:28UTC and then a slower descent. At 17:28:45UTC there's a jump in frequency and then a slower leveling off to the Doppler frequency of the Moon. Congratulations on the landing!
For the second time this week, the @radiotelescoop.bsky.social had a front row seat on a lunar landing attempt. This time by @intuitivemachines.bsky.social #IM-2 lunar lander. We listed to Doppler effect on the S-band signals at 2210.6MHz during its successful descent to the lunar surface.
With the #BGM-1 lander from @firefly-aerospace.bsky.social now safely on the surface of the Moon, we've had some time to take a closer look at the @radiotelescoop.bsky.social's observation of the #BGM-1 signal during the landing, which shows several events during the landing sequence.
With @radiotelescoop.bsky.social we've observed the failed landings of Beresheet and Chandrayaan-2 in 2019 and the partially successful landings of SLIM and IM-1 last year. This is the first landing that appears to have gone by the book. Thanks to Tammo Jan Dijkema and @telkamp.eu for helping today.
The Spanish cubesat Uresat has finally deployed its antennas. Until it had, we were almost the only station that could receive it. We confirm that after antenna deployment, the signal is much stronger. Here's an FM snippet from yesterday's @satnogs.bsky.social pass: "EA1YO greeting from AO4URE".
We used the Dwingeloo Radio Telescope to repeat its discovery of the 3 kpc Arm of the Milky Way in 1957. And we can confirm it's still there! Yesterday's measurements (red +) overlayed on the graph from the original paper.
Juno (Jupiter, 623 million km) on a 1.5m dish, incl. Doppler tracking:
Yes! We received Voyager 1 on the Dwingeloo telescope! Not bad for a telescope from 1956 and spacecraft from 1977 📡🛰️ More at www.camras.nl/en/blog/2024...
