A Canadian radio astronomy facility in Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario, built around a 46-meter dish completed in 1966 that was, for a time, the largest fully steerable radio telescope in Canada. It played a pioneering role in the development of Very Long Baseline Interferometry between Canadian and American radio telescopes in the late 1960s.
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The Algonquin Radio Observatory (ARO) is a radio observatory located in Algonquin Provincial Park in Ontario, Canada.
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It opened in 1959
In Group: Single-Dish Radio and Millimetre Telescopes, Lead sentence
In 1962 it was selected as the site for the Algonquin 46m radio telescope, which has been the site's primary instrument through most of its history.
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It opened in 1959 in order to host a number of the National Research Council of Canada's (NRC) ongoing experiments in a more radio-quiet location than Ottawa.
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