Budding scientists in Green Bank, West Virginia will embark on a new mission next week. Students in Ms. Brown’s 7th grade class have planned extensively to launch a 12-foot diameter, high altitude helium balloon to conduct several scientific experiments.
Sunday, May 15th a total lunar eclipse of a supermoon will be visible to most of us in West Virginia (weather permitting) between the hours of 10:30pm and 2am Eastern Time. The start and end of the lunar eclipse’s ‘totality’ is between 11:30pm and 1am. No special equipment is needed to view a lunar eclipse, […]
19th – 21st September 2022, Green Bank, WV Summary From the 19th to the 21st of September, 2022, Green Bank Observatory held a workshop with the goals of 1) celebrating the success of prior observing campaigns and the K-band Focal Plane Array (KFPA), while encouraging use of the available archival data; 2) polling the community […]
RAMPS Data Project Summary High-mass stars (M > 8 MSun), though rarer than low-mass stars, are nevertheless a dominant source of energy and chemical enrichment in the interstellar medium (ISM). Because massive stars are rarer and form in denser, more opaque gas, their formation is more difficult to observe and is less well understood than […]
Green Bank Telescope will be largest fully steerable antenna in the world capable of transmitting radar signals for research Powerful radar systems have played a major role in the study of planets, moons, asteroids, and other objects in our Solar System for several decades, and now have a “unique role” to play in planetary defense […]
Award honoring legacy of Frank Drake returns April 23rd to Green Bank Observatory Watch a recording of this lecture here.
How to use the GUI To use the GUI enter ‘gbt-rfi-gui’ at the command line on any GBO linux computer. Select your desired frequency range by selecting the receiver you are interested in. For most receivers simply selecting the receiver is sufficient to select the full range of that band. For the Prime Focus receivers […]
How to use the GUI To use the GUI enter ‘gbt-rfi-gui’ at the command line on any GBO linux computer. Select your desired frequency range by selecting the receiver you are interested in. For most receivers simply selecting the receiver is sufficient to select the full range of that band. For the Prime Focus receivers […]