Dwingeloo radio telescope
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Telescope Dwingeloo radio telescope |
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| The 25-meter Dwingeloo radio telescope | |
| Type | Radio telescope |
| Location | Westerveld, Netherlands |
| Geographic coordinates | 52 ° 48 '48 " N , 6 ° 23' 48" E |
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| Aperture | 25 m
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| construction time | until 1954 |
| Specialty | The largest radio telescope in the world when it was commissioned |
The Dwingeloo radio telescope near the village of Dwingeloo in the municipality of Westerveld in the north-east of the Netherlands is a single-bowl radio telescope with a diameter of 25 m . Construction began in 1954 and the construction phase was completed in 1956 . At the time it was the largest radio telescope in the world.
It has not been in operation since 2000 and was officially declared a Dutch industrial monument in August 2009 . In June 2012 it was dismantled for restoration purposes and reinstalled in November 2012 . The CA Muller Radio Astronomy Station foundation, also known as CAMRAS , put the radio telescope back into operation in collaboration with the owner ASTRON .
Paul Boven ( JIVE , CAMRAS) uses the telescope together with radio amateurs and amateur radio astronomers for various projects. One of them is the EME project (also called moonbounce for moon rebound) in which radio waves are reflected on the moon in order to ensure extreme range communication via radio.
The Dwingeloo radio telescope is also home to most of the ASTRON staff and a test facility for LOFAR .
The two galaxies discovered here, Dwingeloo 1 and Dwingeloo 2 , were named after this telescope.
Individual evidence
- ↑ DISH DWINGELOO TELESCOPE TEMPORARILY DISMANTLED ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ DISH DWINGELOO RADIO TELESCOPE BACK ON TOWER ( Memento of the original from December 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- ASTRON
- CAMRAS
- Gart Westerhout: A survey of the continuous radiation from the Galactic System at a frequency of 1390 Mc / s . In: Bulletin of the Astronomical Institutes of the Netherlands . 14, 1958, p. 215. bibcode : 1958BAN .... 14..215W .