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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

Within these pages, the author explores the fascinating world of radio astronomy with a hands-on approach found nowhere else in the literature. The book is the result of years of experimentation and radio telescope construction by the author and his students at Saint Mary's University in Hallifax, Nova Scotia. Most all of the equipment is constructed from inexpensive surplus materials, placing these projects within financial reach of schools and individuals with very modest budgets.

(Extracted from the back cover).

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Preface.

-Table of Contents.

-1- Some General Concepts.

-2- Projects in the VHF and UHF Spectrum.

-3- Projects in the Microwave Spectrum.

-4- Miscellaneous Projects.

-5- Signal Processing Concepts.

-6- Student Research Papers.

-Appendix A: Spectra of Major Observable Objects.

-Appendix B: Meridian Crossings at Local Standard Time.

-Appendix C: Sidereal Time at 0h Greenwich Mean Time.

-Appendix D: Sundial Corrections.

OUR REVIEW

William Lonc is a Catholic priest fascinated by science. Besides his scholarly achievements, he is well known in the field of amateur radio astronomers.

In this book, father Lonc has compiled a great amount of previously published articles where he explains the bases to practice amateur radio astronomy with the guarantee of carrying out a profitable work for science.

Lonc includes different technical aspects that no doubt will be of a great help both for those who wish to initiate their way into this new adventure, much less difused than visual telescope observation, and for those who already have a solid background on this matter. Thus, he starts with a general review to all the basic concepts, to next explain how the instruments must be built, what to observe with them and what scientific projects are feasible to develop.

The book also includes some research articles written by undergraduates who had reached a certain competence in this field, thus proving what can be done with a will and an interest. Among the objectives studied there are the galactic center, the Sun, the Moon and the planets, etc.

Given the virtual absence of similar works to this one with the required level, available to the aficionados and advanced students, the book by Lonc is a treasure that mixes practice with theory, experience and future possibilities.