Reber Radio Telescope

Reber Radio Telescope

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caption =
nearest_city= Green Bank, West Virginia
lat_degrees = 38
lat_minutes = 25
lat_seconds = 48.61
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 79
long_minutes = 49
long_seconds = 4.45
long_direction = W
locmapin=West Virginia
area =
built =1937
architect= Grote Reber
architecture=
designated= December 20, 1989cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=1277&ResourceType=Structure
title=Reber Radio Telescope |accessdate=2007-10-13|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service]
added = November 09, 1972cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]
governing_body = NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
refnum=72001291

Reber Radio Telescope is a parabolic radio astronomy device. It is significant for its pioneering of radio astronomy.

Grote Reber was an amateur astronomer who built this telescope in Illinois in 1937, implementing a proposal of Karl Jansky, discoverer of radio waves emanating from the Milky Way. It was the first such telescope, and was the only one in use until after World War II.

The telescope was later moved to Sterling, Virginia, then later to Boulder, Colorado, and finally to Green Bank, West Virginia.

It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1989.citation|title=PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Text/72001291.pdf National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Reber Radio Telescope] |234 KB|date=May 1, 1989 |author=Harry Butowsky |publisher=National Park Service and PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Photos/72001291.pdf Accompanying 3 photos: from 1962, from c.1960 (with Grote Reber), and one of Karl Jansky, another astronomy pioneer with his radio antennas, from c.1930.] |1.38 MB]

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ee also

* Jansky radio telescope


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