Imaging the crab pulsar - in its off state

Hi,

This came up at the SDAS talk last night regarding what work amateurs can do with pulsars.

A few years ago I remembered on uk.sci.astronomy that someone posted an image of the pulsar in the off state.

Robin Leadbeater's page describes the technique he used to capture this:
www.leadbeaterhome.fsnet.co.uk/pulsar_detection_1.htm

Cheers,
~Al

Clever to calibrate/test the instrument on a streetlight.

The first time in history that a streetlight is useful for astronomy!

I suspect that the strobe effect could be achieved electronically by switching the actual CCD detector itself off and on periodically rather than using a spinning wheel in front of it.
(Which is shades of John Logie Baird's first "mechanical" television set.)