Sentences with phrase «metre radio telescope»

In 1968, the 25.6 - metre radio telescope at Penticton was used in conjunction with the 46 - metre telescope at the Algonquin Radio Observatory to simulate the resolution of a giant radio telescope measuring 3,074 kilometres (the physical distance between the two instruments).

In 1968, the 46 - metre radio telescope was used in conjunction with the 26 - metre instrument at the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory of Penticton, British Columbia, to simulate the resolution of a giant 3,074 - kilometre radio telescope (the physical distance separating the two instruments).

In this study, Dr Jane Greaves of Cardiff University and Dr Helen Fraser of the Open University detected the bright methanol signature using the IRAM 30 - metre radio telescope in the Spanish Sierra Nevada.

The report also urges refurbishing the Australia Telescope, the 64 - metre radio telescope at Parkes in NSW, so that it can be used for infrared astronomy and the support of site testing for a possible international observatory on the Antarctic plateau.

After a few months of check - out, the team will begin to coordinate observations with telescopes on the ground, including two 100 - metre radio telescopes — in Green Bank, West Virginia, and Effelsberg, Germany, and the 305 - metre Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico.

Not exact matches

They then took a closer look at the spectrum of radiation emitted by each of these objects, using optical telescopes in Arizona and the world's largest radio telescope, the 305 - metre dish at Arecibo in Puerto Rico.

The team sent the signals from a 70 - metre radio antenna in Goldstone, California, and recorded the returning signals using the Very Large Array (VLA) of 27 radio telescopes in New Mexico to compile a radar map of Mars.

At 10 metres, RadioAstron's antenna is small compared to Earth's largest radio telescopes, which span 100 metres or more.

Covington had begun the construction of a giant parabolic antenna measuring 46 metres across back in 1959, and it was finally completed in 1966 as one of the largest and most sensitive radio telescopes in the world.

The posts supported a network of several thousand metres of metallic wires formed the antenna of the radio telescope.

The main instruments of the Observatory are the Big Telescope Alt - azimuthal (BTA), an optical reflector with the primary mirror 6 metres in diameter and the radio telescope RATAN - 600 (abbreviated from the RAdio Telescope of the Academy of Sciences) with a 600 metre multielement ring antradio telescope RATAN - 600 (abbreviated from the RAdio Telescope of the Academy of Sciences) with a 600 metre multielement ring antRAdio Telescope of the Academy of Sciences) with a 600 metre multielement ring antenna.

It consisted of two parabolic radio telescopes measuring 8.5 metres across that would operate together to simulate a larger radio telescope with a 600 - metre diameter.

The significant improvement in the sharpness of the jet images was made possible by the Earth - to - Space Interferometer RadioAstron, which consists of a 10 - metre orbiting radio telescope and a collection of about two dozen of the world's largest ground - based radio telescopes.