Other Radio Observatories

A compilation of radio observatories and their telescopes. This concept was extended as a school practice project at MPIfR (Daniela Düßdorf, March 1999). The results of other such projects are compiled at the following Web page:

1) Germany

• Effelsberg (MPIfR; Radioobservatorium Effelsberg)
• APEX (MPIfR; APEX-Teleskop)
• RAIUB (Radioastronomisches Institut der Universität Bonn)
• KOSMA (Kölner Observatorium für Submillimeter Astronomie)
• OSRA (Observatorium für Solare Radioastronomie, Tremsdorf)

2) Europe

• IRAM (Institut de RadioAstronomie Millimétrique, Grenoble, France)
• NRAL (Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories: Jodrell Bank, UK)
• MERLIN (Multi-Element Radio Linked Interferometer Network, UK)
• MRAO (Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, Cambridge, UK)
• OSO (Onsala Space Observatory, Sweden)
• WSRT (Westerbork, The Netherlands)
• ASTRON (Netherlands; formerly NFRA)
• TCfA (Torun Centre for Astronomy, Poland)
• IdR (Istituto di Radioastronomia, Bologna, Italy)
• Metsähovi (Metsähovi Radio Observatory, Finland)

3) America

• NRAO (National Radio Astronomy Observatory, USA)
• VLA (Very Large Array, Socorro, USA)
• VLBA (Very Long Baseline Array, USA)
• GBT Home Page (The New Green Bank Telescope)
• HHT (Heinrich Hertz SMTO, Mt. Graham, USA)
• Arecibo Observatory (Arecibo, Puerto Rico, USA)
• BIMA Home Page
• CSO (Caltech Submillimeter Observatory, USA)
• DRAO (Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory, Canada))
• JCMT (James Clerk Maxwell Telescope, Hawaii)
• OVRO (Owens Valley Radio Observatory, USA)
• Haystack (MIT Haystack Observatory, USA)
• FCRAO (Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory)

4) Asia/Australia

• ATNF (The Australia Telescope National Facility)
• MOST (Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope)
• NRO (Nobeyama Radio Observatory, Japan)
• APT (Asia Pacific Telescope)
• Mount Pleasant (Mount Pleasant Observatory, Tasmania)

5) Elsewhere/Future Projects

• VSOP (VLBI Space Observatory)
• MMA (Millimeter Array project, NRAO, USA )
• SMA (Submillimeter Array, Harvard+SAO, USA )
• LMSA (Large Millimeter and Submillimeter Array, Japan)
• ALMA oder Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ESO, NRAO).
• LMT (Large Millimeter Telescope project, Mexico )
• SKAI ( Square Kilometer Array, Dutch Homepage)
• 1kT ( Square Kilometer Array, Australian Homepage)
• HRAO (Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory)

Here is a collection of radio astronomy sites and Radio Telescopes in the World, kept by KOHNO Kotaro in Japan. And the VLBI group of the MPI für Radioastronomie provides a gallery of images of radio telescopes in the world.