A German radio telescope near Bad Munstereifel, completed in 1972 with a fully steerable 100-meter dish that was the largest steerable radio telescope in the world for nearly three decades. It remains a leading instrument for pulsar timing and Very Long Baseline Interferometry, operated by the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy.
Facts
Observatory Type LocationEffelsberg, Bad Munstereifel, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany 2 MeasuresRadio waves at wavelengths between 0.35 cm and 73.48 cm 2 Operating PrincipleFully steerable 100-meter parabolic dish with an active, computer-designed mirror support structure 2 Classification
Observing Band Connections
Operated By
Source Wikipedia: Effelsberg 100-m Radio Telescope
In the Other Atlases
Located In
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is located.
Sources
1. Wikipedia (space and spaceflight articles)
Wikimedia Foundation
2. Wikipedia: Effelsberg 100-m Radio Telescope
Lead section, opening sentence
The Effelsberg 100-metre Radio Telescope is a radio telescope
Infobox, location field
Effelsberg, Bad Munstereifel, Euskirchen, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Radio telescope section, inauguration date
inaugurated on 1 August 1972
Infobox, technical specifications field
Wavelength 408, 86,000 MHz (73.48, 0.35 cm)
Radio telescope section, mirror support description
a novel computer-designed mirror support structure which deforms in such a way that the deformed mirror will always take a parabolic shape
Effelsberg 100-metre Radio Telescope, Wikipedia - lead section, observing band (radio)
The Effelsberg 100-metre Radio Telescope is a radio telescope in the Ahr Hills (part of the Eifel) in Bad Münstereifel, Germany.
In Group: Single-Dish Radio and Millimetre Telescopes, Lead sentence
The Effelsberg 100-metre Radio Telescope is a radio telescope in the Ahr Hills (part of the Eifel) in Bad Münstereifel, Germany.
Operated By: Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Article text: operator
The Effelsberg radio telescope is operated by the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, the radio astronomy institute of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft.
View the SourceReader Challenges (0)
No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.
Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.