[time-nuts] Pulsars make a GPS for the cosmos

[Jim Lux]

On 9/28/13 3:55 PM, Bob Stewart wrote:
> Just to satisfy my curiosity: what's easiest to detect galactic pulse emitter (regardless of type), and what's the minimum setup to reliably look at it, whether it's just during night time, or whatever.  Just seeking perspective, I haven't just won the lottery.
>

In another post in this thread, I put some links to some amateur pulsar 
receiving efforts.  It looks like you need about 5-10 meters of aperture 
and a decent LNA.  Someone was receiving Crab Nebula at about 0.5 dB SNR 
with a 20+ foot dish.


IF you know the period of the pulsar, you can time average.