Hi Hal > The setup is a spinning disk with holes in it. > Adjust the speed of rotation until it beats with the pulsar. > I think you need a small telescope for the bright pulsars.
Yes, you are quite right. I recently done this with an 8" amateur telescope and it is possible to reconstruct the optical profile of a pulsar however it not a trivial exercise and need correction for a number of timing issues. You need to average thousands of pulses for a decent S/N while maintaining synchronization with the rotation of the pulsar. The only optical bright pulsar is the Crab pulsar at magnitude 16.5 and spin at around 30Hz. (yes, and I assume you need to be some sort of timing freak to do this :-) If you are interest you can access my publication in June 2013 issue p91 of MNASSA at http://www.mnassa.org.za/ Best Regards Andre _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
