Effelsberg

Infobox Telescope
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name = Effelsberg 100-m Radio Telescope


caption = Radio telescope at Effelsberg
organization = Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn
location = Effelsberg, North Rhine-Westphalia
wavelength = radio 408MHz-86GHz
built = 1971
website = http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/div/effelsberg/
style = parabolic reflector
diameter = 100m
area = 7,850m²
focal_length = 30m
mounting = alt-azimuth fully steerable primary
altitude = 319 m ü. NN

Since its inauguration in 1972, the Effelsberg 100-m radio telescope is one of the world's largest fully steerable telescopes. It operates at wavelengths from about 7 mm to 90 cm . The telescope is operated by the Max Planck Institut für Radioastronomie in Bonn, Germany (part of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft). The Effelsberg 100-m telescope was involved in several such surveys, including the one, to name just one example, at 408 MHz (73 cm) by Haslam et al. (1981, 1982; Astron. and Astrophys.). For nearly 30 years it was the largest fully steerable radio telescope in the world - until the opening of the Green Bank Telescope in Green Bank, West Virginia (USA).

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ee also

* Radio telescope