Jovian Receiver

To View the Live Data Stream from our Jovian Receiver download Radio-Skypipe II and operate it in Client mode to view LMRO and many other Observatories operating and using very similar arrangements.

Data Files are now downloadable in .spd format, these files average 12MB in size and shouldn't take long to download using Broadband, 60 to 90 seconds. Currently FEB, JUN to DEC 2010 and part JAN 2011, system was down for a few weeks re-stablished on the 13th of FEB. SPD files up to the 11/04/11 are now available. Click here, SPD Files these files are only viewable using Radio-Skypipe program.

Skypipe strip charts in the form of JPG images are uploaded to the server every 10 minutes.

There is a short 9 minute image uploaded and a long 24hour image which currently re-starts late evening at 12:15:52 Hours UTC, or 11:15pm Local Time, these charts are displayed below.

You can listen to an Audio Stream here direct from the JOVE Rx ON-LINE There is a noticable delay of about 15 to 30 odd seconds between what is seen on the Skypipe Chart and what you will actually hear. We are looking at ways to decrease this delay, but we find that a short delay can be beneficial, it can also take up to a minute to connect and buffer enough data before hearing sound.

Further Information on the Radio Jove Project can be found here, NASA Radio JOVE Project

This Link also provides first hand Information by Mal Wilkinson and John Kennewell back in July of 1994, A Project for Detecting Radio Emissions from Jupiter
This Article includes an updated "Notes" section at the bottom of the article, worth reading too.

This Glossary helps to undestand some of the Terms and Mechanisms associated with Jupiter Io relationship.

We are keeping an archive of JPG files that are available through this link.
At regular intervals the files will be sorted into daily directories


Current Charts

www.lmdsro.com/skypipe/

Attention Please:-
The Jove Receiver is back on line.

Latest Hourly Spectrographs from the Learmonth Observatory


Please Check out the ASSA Radio Astronomy Group - Jove Receiver web page.





In times of Jupiter inactivity and particularly when our Star is above the Horizon the Radio Jove Receiver is a perfect Solar Flare detector, during the day overall noise on 20MHz is more pronounced which is a combination of terrestial, Local and simply the wideband noise created by the Sun, a Solar Flare creates a very distinctive trace pattern and or noise signature. The image below is an IO-B event the second image is a Solar Flare event both caught by this observatory.

30.11.2009. 05:12