Detecting the flashes from the Crab Nebula Pulsar

well done. I found your technical notes very good.
Jerry




Robin Leadbeater wrote:

Hi,

I am not a regular contributor to this group but I posted this on
uk.sci.astronomy yesterday and it was felt it warranted a wider audience, so
here goes!

I have been attempting to record the optical pulses from the pulsar in M1
using a strobe technique and my home built CCD camera. It has been tough
extracting it from the noise but I am fairly convinced I have managed it. I
have done a bit of searching and I cannot find any record on the web at
least of this having been done on an amateur basis before, but I expect to
be proved wrong ;-) It is certainly an interesting and challenging project
though!

You can see images of the Pulsar 'on' and 'off ' at my site here

http://www.leadbeaterhome.fsnet.co.u...o_image_33.htm

and there is a link from there to pages which explain the technique and go
into the results in more detail

Clear Skies,
Robin
www.leadbeaterhome.fsnet.co.uk/astro.htm