From some telescopes in Cambridge I don't know the history, so if you
know more about is (which survey at which frequency) let me know.
Dwingeloo radio telescope. This was more or less what I saw when looking out the
window from my office for about 7 months. This was the first major radio telescope
in the Netherlands.
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Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope. The telescope that made so many discoveries
and put mostly Dutch astronomers in the front of radio astronomy. When I was working
on the WENSS project I worked with data from this telescope.
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The old Leiden Observatory - optical refractor. The telescope has a 340 mm opening and
a focal length of 524 cm. Since it is used as a photograpic instrument (using a plate
cassette to hold glass plates of about 15x15 cm coated with emulsion) a second
optical viewer (200 mm opening) is placed in parallel. It was build in 1897 and I
was together with Erwin the last student who officially had to make exposures as part
of our studies. Now it is maintaned by the WLS.
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One of the 27 radio telescopes from the VLA in New Mexico. I used data from this
telescope for my Master Degree. I also went to the VLA for a summerschool. This
array of telescopes can been seen in the movie "Contact".
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Cambridge optical telescope at IOA.
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Cambridge radio telescopes. On the left you see one of the Synthesis Telescopes,
similar to the WSRT at Westerbork, on the right you'll see an array used for
a radio survey.
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Cambridge radio telescopes used for the 8C survey. The 8C survey covers the northern hemisphere
above a declination of 60d, at 38 MHz, with a resolution of 4.5×4.5 cosec(declination)
arcmin2 (EW×NS).
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Cambridge Merlin telescope. Merlin is a VLBI network operated by the Jodrell Bank
Observatory.
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