M33 successfully detected with my new mini-dish!

[Jason Burnfield]

[JERRY TAYLOR]

Nice work Jason!  I am interested in constructing a similar dish.  Some time when you have it folded up can you post a picture of it?  I have limited space for storage and set up.  

Thanks.

Jerry Taylor 

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[Eduard Mol]

Well done Jason!

Would not have expected that you could get such a good result with such a small dish.

How many driftscans did you combine?

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[Andrew Thornett]

This is incredible! Got to do this with my 150cm!

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[Dimitry UA3AVR]

Congradulations, Jason ... a good work.

среда, 1 апреля 2026 г. в 10:56:20 UTC+3, Andrew Thornett:

[Jason Burnfield]

I spoke too soon guys! The detection did seem a little too good to be true. I just realized looking further into it, that it might be a "false positive". I had the spectrum exactly centered in the passband and the bump may correspond to a residual SDR passband shape. I'm going to gather some new scans over the next several days with the spectrum offset by 50 km/s from center. We'll see what we get then. Stay tuned!