Big work night!

Today at our first major work day we made many improvements on the telescope!! We had 2 teams of people working on our different projects. They all went down without any real problems (thankfully) but the project my team was working on was a pain to do. The projects were: 1)Cut and paint the new front end supports. 2) straighten the front end posts attached to the hub. 3) check the cable running from the front end to the back end (incomplete). and 4) rig the astrocam up to look at the telescope to see where the telescope is pointing (in progress). 2 of the 4 projects were successfully completed they were cutting and painting the the supports, and straightening the front end post attached to the hub. One of the projects is still under construction and that is the astrocam project.
The project the team on the roof was working on was the most difficult to complete due to all of the support arms in the hub. The second team was in the science building working on cutting and drilling of the new support arms for the front end, it was an upgrade from our very very rusty supports. Thanks to everybody that spent there time this Friday night to help work on the telescope and get all this major work done so once we get all the parts back into the telescope it will be ready to go!

That's all for now, but keep checking back for more information. also new members, do not forget to turn in the sheets that will allow you to work and the emergency form. And for old members who haven't turned in the updated EMS sheet do that ASAP!!
Thanks,
E. Bartos, Tech Guy.

Welcome New Members!!

Hello all new members! We have news on the RATZ elections!! The new president and vice president have been chosen......the winners: President: Dailey And Vice President: Bartos! In other news we had a good turn out at the new members meeting. If you are a new member and missed the fact that we are having our first real meeting next FRIDAY. please turn you emergency forms in! if you don't you will NOT be able to work on Friday!!!

Current status of the telescope: Non-Operational. No motors are in the telescope and the front end is down.

Welcome!

Welcome Back to school everybody!! This is the start of the GP RATZ blog! For those of you who don't know we are the Grosse Pointe Radio Astronomy Team. We are the only group of students that built a radio telescope from scratch. if you are new to radio astronomy take a look at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's (NRAO) information on radio astronomy at: http://www.nrao.edu/whatisra/index.shtml also take a look around the site.
This will keep you informed of all the recent events in the club if you are in the club, this is really for you if you aren't in the club, but go to Grosse Pointe North or South High School you can come to the new members meeting, check the school announcements for more information.

That's all for now but take come back!! The blog will be updated Every Thursday, if not Thursday it will be on Friday.

That's all.
E. Bartos, Tech Guy.