Radio Jove at WKU

Radio Jove is a NASA-supported project for education and outreach in radio astronomy. It uses fairly modest equipment to detect radio emissions at a frequency of about 20 MHz (a wavelength of 15 meters) from the planet Jupiter, the Sun, and our Galaxy.

Western Kentucky University ran a Radio Jove experiment for several years with participation of our Honors General Astronomy (ASTR 214) class. Various aspects of this project are described below.

General Information NASA Radio Jove Project Online Resources Local Experiment Remote Station Photo Gallery Project Credits WKU History Example Detections Solar Activity Jupiter Storms Galactic Emission Terrestrial Storms Artificial Signals Observational Data Plots of Detected Signals vs. Time