{"id":35261,"date":"2024-08-30T17:30:38","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T16:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=35261"},"modified":"2024-08-30T17:42:20","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T16:42:20","slug":"september-tonight8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/headlines\/2024\/08\/30\/september-tonight8\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Tonight @ 8<\/em> autumn 2024 programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The RSGB autumn <em><a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/webinars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Tonight @ 8<\/strong><\/a><\/em> programme starts Monday, 2 September 2024 when Brian Coleman, G4NNS gives an update on the Meteor Beacon Project, which is a cooperation between the worlds of amateur radio and astronomy.<\/p>\n<p>The first phase of this project was completed in May 2022 when the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ukmeteorbeacon.org\/Tx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UK meteor beacon GB3MBA<\/a><\/strong> went on the air from the <a href=\"https:\/\/sherwood-observatory.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Sherwood Observatory<\/strong><\/a> of the Mansfield and Sutton Astronomical Society.<\/p>\n<p>It enabled studies of meteor events over the UK using simple equipment, and made possible a range of STEM projects featuring radio and astronomy.<\/p>\n<p>The second phase of the project\u2014which Brian will describe in the presentation\u2014is to develop a network of receivers streaming their data via a central server for detailed study of individual meteor events.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch and ask questions live on the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/live\/Rl6tHPvhZ7g?feature=share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>RSGB YouTube channel<\/strong><\/a> or special <a href=\"https:\/\/batc.org.uk\/live\/rsgb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>BATC channel<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To find out more go to <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/webinars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>rsgb.org\/webinars<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The RSGB autumn Tonight @ 8 programme starts Monday, 2 September 2024 when Brian Coleman, G4NNS gives an update on the Meteor Beacon Project, which is a cooperation between the worlds of amateur radio and astronomy. The first phase of this project was completed in May 2022 when the UK meteor beacon GB3MBA went on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20358,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274,47,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-page-news","category-headlines","category-rsgb-notices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20358"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}