Speaker
Description
The aspiration of creating awareness and visibility on astronomy among the physics enthusiast in the university is though hands-on experiences. The Kenyatta University Physics outreach club (KUPHYC) has been active in outreach activities that are not only informative, but also offering hands-on experiences. In the quest to creating awareness and interest in astronomy, especially on SKA and AVN being the frontier global research projects, youth driven activities and projects have been developed. The projects are geared towards taking advantage of the available instrumentation resources in the department. The available instruments are laboratory bench-top antenna kit, four locally designed and fabricated dish antennas, a donated 3-meter yagi – uda antenna and a donated RTL-SDR based table top radio telescope. I will be presenting the outreach activities around the design, fabrication and testing of a 4-dish radio interferometer; the assembly, optimization and observations done using an RTL-SDR based table top radio telescope; and the RFI detection and analysis done using the 3-meter Yagi-Uda antenna.
| Stream | Education Development and Outreach |
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