Singing with the Moon

Moon bouncing

INTRODUCTION EVENT FOR HMK

Date: Thursday 6th November

Time: 18.00 - 20.00

Audience: Everyone

Description:

This is a live moon bouncing event with radio amateur and moon-bouncing enthusiast Jan van Muijlwijk. Moonboucing is a radio technology using the moon as reflection surface to bounce off radio waves. Jan van Muijlwijk has had more than 9000 successful moonbouncing contacts, and reached 118 countries with his home built radio telescope. He was also actively involved in restoring the radio telescope in Dwingeloo, the biggest and oldest radio telescope worldwide that is solely used by radio amateurs.

In this introduction event artist Leonie Brandner will introduce her project Moonhorn and her collaboration with the opera singer Nina Guo and Jan van Muijlwijk as part of it. Jan will be present at Dwingeloo radio telescope and give us a little introduction to moon bouncing and give us the unique opportunity demonstrate live moonbouncing: we can do experiments with send our voices to the moon and back.