BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20220313T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20221106T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20221026T200722Z UID:D3A0DC42-96E9-42A6-B32C-7A64EB22B217 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221026T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221026T130000 DESCRIPTION:Dear Life Members\n\nYou are invited to York College Engineerin g & Computer Science Campus for a presentation and demonstration of their Radio Telescope Project.\n\nYour host is Dr. Kala Meah\, Associate Profess or and Susquehanna Section Vice Chair\n\nLocation is York College Campus\, Kinsley Engineering Center\n\n11am to 11:45am Presentation\n\n11:45am to 12:15pm Demonstration\n\n12:15pm to 1:00pm Complimentary Lunch\n\nPlease n ote: Registration is required. This tour is limited to the first 16 member s to register. Registration will close with 16 registered.\n\nTake Exit 15 from I-83\nDrive until you see Country Club Rd and take a Left on Country Club Rd\nDrive about 0.5 miles then take a Right on Grantley Rd\nDrive ab out 0.3 miles and take a Right on Jackson St\nDrive about 0.25 miles and t ake a left on N. Campus Drive (Second Stop Sign). This will lead you to th e parking lot.\n\nA Brief Introduction to the Radio Telescope Project\n\nT he York College of Pennsylvania (YCP) engineering and Computer Science pro grams collaborated with the York County Astronomical Society (YCAS) and Yo rk County Parks to design and fabricate a 4.5 m auto-tracking\, auto-locat ing\, publicly accessible radio telescope. After five years of research\, design\, and testing\, the telescope is ready to install and operate at Jo hn C. Rudy County Park\, York\, PA. The YCAS radio telescope project is a multidisciplinary engineering capstone project involving mechanical engine ering\, electrical engineering\, computer engineering\, and computer scien ce students. The telescope can automatically locate and track various cele stial objects and collect 1.42 GHz radio frequency data emitting from thes e objects. This specific frequency is known as the hydrogen line and is a common frequency for radio telescopes to search for due to the abundance o f hydrogen in the universe. While many components make up this project\, t his paper highlights the software service components developed for the tel escope.\n\nThis telescope is a medium size solid dish radio telescope\, si milar to the Green Bank Telescope but at a smaller scale and different fre quency range. All software components were built in house\, but unlike man y radio telescope software systems\, the YCAS radio telescope software con sists mostly of control and user interaction software\, leaving the means of processing the raw data to the user of the telescope. The control softw are can perform multiple observation types including point\, celestial bod y\, raster\, drift\, moon\, and sun observations\, akin to the control sof tware of the UTR-2 radio telescope but implements them differently due to the radio telescope type.\n\n[]Similar to the Open Source Radio Telescopes (OSRT) project\, the YCAS radio telescope project looks to educate commun ities about and facilitate amateur radio astronomy\; however\, this projec t differs in its approach. OSRT offers low-cost project telescope resource s\, but this project aims to provide public access to a radio telescope an d education to the local community about radio astronomy. In tandem with Y CP\, this project also serves as an opportunity to explore the capabilitie s of undergraduate students tackling and leading a sufficiently complex\, multi-year\, multi-disciplinary project\, similar to what most will experi ence in their careers.\n\nCo-sponsored by: York College Engineering & Comp uter Science Dept.\n\nBldg: Kinsley Engineering Center\, York College\, 44 1 Country Club Rd.\, York\, Pennsylvania\, United States\, 17403 LOCATION:Bldg: Kinsley Engineering Center\, York College\, 441 Country Club Rd.\, York\, Pennsylvania\, United States\, 17403 ORGANIZER:r.lesniewski@ieee.org SEQUENCE:5 SUMMARY:Oct. 26 Susquehanna Section Life Member Branch Tour: York College R adio Telescope Project URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/328676 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p>Dear Life Members</p>\n<p>You are invited to York College Engineering &amp\; Computer Science Campus for a presentat ion and demonstration of their Radio Telescope Project.</p>\n<p>Your host is Dr. Kala Meah\, Associate Professor and Susquehanna Section Vice Chair< /p>\n<p>Location is York College Campus\, Kinsley Engineering Center</p>\n <p>11am to 11:45am &nbsp\; Presentation</p>\n<p>11:45am to 12:15pm &nbsp\; Demonstration</p>\n<p>12:15pm to 1:00pm &nbsp\;Complimentary Lunch</p>\n<p ><strong>Please note: Registration is required. &nbsp\;This tour is limite d to the first 16 members to register. &nbsp\;Registration will close with 16 registered.</strong></p>\n<p>Take Exit 15 from I-83<br />Drive until y ou see Country Club Rd and take a Left on Country Club Rd<br />Drive about 0.5 miles then take a Right on Grantley Rd<br />Drive about 0.3 miles and take a Right on Jackson St<br />Drive about 0.25 miles and take a left on N. Campus Drive (Second Stop Sign). This will lead you to the parking lot .</p>\n<p align="JUSTIFY">A Brief Introduction to the Radio Telescope Proj ect</p>\n<p align="JUSTIFY">The York College of Pennsylvania (YCP) enginee ring and Computer Science programs collaborated with the York County Astro nomical Society (YCAS) and York County Parks to design and fabricate a 4.5 m auto-tracking\, auto-locating\, publicly accessible radio telescope. Af ter five years of research\, design\, and testing\, the telescope is ready to install and operate at John C. Rudy County Park\, York\, PA. The YCAS radio telescope project is a multidisciplinary engineering capstone projec t involving mechanical engineering\, electrical engineering\, computer eng ineering\, and computer science students. The telescope can automatically locate and track various celestial objects and collect 1.42 GHz radio freq uency data emitting from these objects. This specific frequency is known a s the hydrogen line and is a common frequency for radio telescopes to sear ch for due to the abundance of hydrogen in the universe. While many compon ents make up this project\, this paper highlights the software service com ponents developed for the telescope.</p>\n<p align="JUSTIFY">&nbsp\;</p>\n <p align="JUSTIFY">This telescope is a medium size solid dish radio telesc ope\, similar to the Green Bank Telescope but at a smaller scale and diffe rent frequency range. All software components were built in house\, but un like many radio telescope software systems\, the YCAS radio telescope soft ware consists mostly of control and user interaction software\, leaving th e means of processing the raw data to the user of the telescope. The contr ol software can perform multiple observation types including point\, celes tial body\, raster\, drift\, moon\, and sun observations\, akin to the con trol software of the UTR-2 radio telescope but implements them differently due to the radio telescope type.</p>\n<p align="JUSTIFY">&nbsp\;</p>\n<p align="JUSTIFY"><a name="_GoBack"></a>Similar to the Open Source Radio Tel escopes (OSRT) project\, the YCAS radio telescope project looks to educate communities about and facilitate amateur radio astronomy\; however\, this project differs in its approach. OSRT offers low-cost project telescope r esources\, but this project aims to provide public access to a radio teles cope and education to the local community about radio astronomy. In tandem with YCP\, this project also serves as an opportunity to explore the capa bilities of undergraduate students tackling and leading a sufficiently com plex\, multi-year\, multi-disciplinary project\, similar to what most will experience in their careers.</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR