Excellent article on the challenges of amateur detection of pulsars: http://neutronstar.joataman.net/technical/amateur_challenges...
It's possible, but you have to have your shit together.
50 Years Ago Jocelyn Bell Discovered Pulsars
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Or else the guy cleaning the ship's deck in the morning should be rewarded for discovering America. We know the guy by the way, one Rodrigo de Triana, natural of Lepe. NASA's DSCO satellite was originally named Triana after him.
And Columbus never did pay him... > On his famous 1492 voyage, Columbus had promised a reward of gold to whoever saw land first. A sailor named Rodrigo de Triana was the first to see land on October 12, 1492: a small island in the present-day Bahamas Columbus named San Salvador. Poor Rodrigo never got the reward however: Columbus kept it for himself, telling everyone he had seen a hazy sort of light the night before.…
But we are talking about him half a millenium later, very few people alive today will get that.
Re: 50 Years Ago Jocelyn Bell Discovered Pulsars
#43As if these things could be more interesting, some exhibit 'glitches' which appear to be quantization of angular momentum on an N solar-mass scale. http://www.unn.edu.ng/publications/files/images/EYA,%20INNOC... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOkjLtCCozM About as far as away as one can imagine, a similar thing appears to happen with very low accelerations with some of our satellites. My search-fo failed on that so f…
found it. "fly-by anomaly". Unknown if it's related to glitches. https://www.universetoday.com/137984/juno-isnt-exactly-suppo...