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Bob Watson
@bobwatson.icu
Scientist using Planck, Quijote, eMERLIN, and help build SKA region centres
Had to replace that noisy fan with a nice quiet Noctua one
August 25, 2025 at 3:13 PM
New toy arrived!
August 21, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Hi Meredith, It's a frequency (10.6 to 12.9GHz) vs time (increasing upwards over 10 minutes) waterfall plot. So you can see the 8 bands. I do have a before, in slightly different format. As you can see things have got a lot busier
August 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Okay back on air!

And there's about 1000 more Starlinks
August 10, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Before and work in progress
August 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I've been neglecting my babies. Found something sweet in the overgrowth
August 7, 2025 at 10:33 AM
In Catania and Etna is starting to act up
June 2, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Hazy partial eclipse by hand
March 29, 2025 at 11:06 AM
February 3, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I use computers to fill up disk space
December 31, 2024 at 2:08 PM
Son got me a Bambu 3D printer, so of course I built a Raspberry Pi K8S cluster into a kitchen utensil holder using it.
December 30, 2024 at 5:08 PM
Wine for Christmas lunch sorted
December 25, 2024 at 3:58 PM
Nice sunrise in the opposite direction of the MkII
December 3, 2024 at 4:31 PM
Nice day at the SKAO HQ for a SRCnet meeting, but did get roped in to do a tour of the Jodrell Observatory
December 3, 2024 at 4:28 PM
I think I have an idea for the innovation sprint!
November 28, 2024 at 12:21 PM
I have a new toy to play with
November 19, 2024 at 12:34 PM
Heard fuss outside, seems next door's cute new kitten was exploring our patio. It was inside my Starlink monitor sniffing the LNB. Sorry I wasn't quick enough with the mobile camera.

It was seriously cute, but here is the record of the RFI Cat
November 14, 2024 at 8:44 AM
How I arrived in Bluesky...
November 12, 2024 at 5:37 PM
Finally got the the little blighter, through the little gap in the bathroom window
Pity the sky is bright with hazy cloud
October 22, 2024 at 7:06 PM
Just about possible, but close to Sun. Looks a bit like this photo, but can see it as faint white spot middle left
October 12, 2024 at 12:40 PM
El IFCA acoge la presentación del proyecto europeo
@RadioForePlus
Un equipo de 20 personas se reúne en Santander para construir los cimientos de esta misión, que aborda uno de los principales retos de la #cosmologia actual +info: bit.ly/42sMBp0
February 6, 2024 at 12:36 PM
I've been decorating #DevTextures
January 29, 2024 at 8:45 PM
❄️ Very Snowy Array 🌨
January 16, 2024 at 9:06 AM
New toy to play with!
November 18, 2023 at 11:19 AM
It can get quite messy at times went OneWeb weighs in too
September 1, 2023 at 12:44 PM