Astronomers resort to crowdfunding to save Australia’s Mopra Radio Telescope

A team of astronomers have resorted to raising funds through crowdsourcing to try and save an Australian telescope involved in mapping the Milky Way. The 22-metre diameter Mopra Radio Telescope, based near Coonabarabran in western New South Wales, is slated to be shut down by the end of the year after $110-million was slashed from CSIRO in last year’s federal budget.

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CrazyNeutrino said:

Astronomers resort to crowdfunding to save Australia’s Mopra Radio Telescope

A team of astronomers have resorted to raising funds through crowdsourcing to try and save an Australian telescope involved in mapping the Milky Way. The 22-metre diameter Mopra Radio Telescope, based near Coonabarabran in western New South Wales, is slated to be shut down by the end of the year after $110-million was slashed from CSIRO in last year’s federal budget.

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> Thank-you everyone who has supported our crowd funding campaign. Team Mopra has reached our funding goal!

From http://mopra.org/

> Tutorials

None.

>Catalogue

None.

Hope they rectify those two omissions soon.

> “Clumpfind” is a rather goofy name to describe a procedure designed for analyzing radio observations of molecular clouds, it works on 3d (position-position-velocity) data cubes, searches for local peaks of emission, and follows them down to lower intensity levels. The end result is a decomposition of the data cube into a set of structural units (“clumps”) in which the emission is concentrated.