Cross-platform Sudden Ionospheric Disturbances (SID) monitor
Monitoring the Sudden Ionospheric Disturbances (SID) is an easy yet exciting Home Based Radio Astronomy Project. This project is an implementation of Stanford SOLAR Center’s SuperSID.
The default SuperSID project software runs on Windows OS to record the pre-amplified signal received by the antenna with a “SuperSID Monitor”.
This SuperSID project is an Open Source implementation that runs on Linux and Windows. The scripts are executable by Python 2.7 and Python 3, at your choice.
This SuperSID includes a text mode which allows to turn your Raspberry Pi in a SID monitor (tested on Raspbian Wheezy & Pidora distro). TkInter in the default GUI to ensure Python 2 and 3 compatibility (but wxPython is still supported for Python 2 only).
| Original Project | Open Source SuperSID Project |
|---|---|
| Desktop/Laptop PC | Desktop/Laptop PC/Raspberry Pi (512Mb) |
| Windows OS | Linux and Windows OS |
| Python 2.7 | Python 2.7 or 3.3+ |
| Any Soundcard | USB External Soundcard |
| SuperSID Monitor pre-amp. | Direct connection to External Soundcard |
supersid.py:
- More options in the [configuration file (.cfg)] (docs/ConfigHelp.md)
- Continue recording after interruption
- Auto adjustment of the interval period for better accuracy
- New extended file format with time stamp to the 1.000th of second
- sidfile.py can be used as a utility to manipulate SID files
supersid_plot.py:
- Accepts multiple files to display up to 10 days in continue (wildcards possible)
- Can connect to NOAA to draw the day's events
- Can send the graph as PDF by email
Example: ./supersid_plot.py -f ~/Data/DAISYSG_2015-07-03.csv --web
