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The Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) is a radio telescope located at 5,100 meters above sea level, at Llano de Chajnantor Observatory in the Atacama desert, in northern Chile, 50 kilometers to the north of San Pedro de Atacama. ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (887x800, 431 KB) Summary Source: http://www. ...
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The 64 metre radio telescope at Parkes Observatory The Very Large Array, an interferometric array formed from many smaller telescopes, like many larger radio telescopes. ...
Llano de Chajnantor Observatory is an astronomical observatory located at 5104 m altitude in the Chilean Atacama desert, 50 kilometers to the north of San Pedro de Atacama. ...
The Atacama desert of Chile is a virtually rainless plateau made up of salt basins (salares), sand, and lava flows, extending from the Andes mountains to the Pacific Ocean. ...
San Pedro de Atacama is a pre-Inca town in northern Chile, and a popular tourist destination. ...
The APEX telescope is a modified ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter Array) prototype antenna and is located at the future site of the ALMA observatory. It is designed to work at sub-millimetre wavelengths, in the 0.2 to 1.5 mm range. The main dish has a diameter of 12 meters and consists of 264 aluminium panels with an average surface accuracy of 17 micrometres (r.m.s.). The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) is an international astronomy project that consists of a system of radio telescopes in an array formation, located at Llano de Chajnantor Observatory in the Atacama desert in northern Chile. ...
APEX is a collaboration between the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) at 50%, Onsala Space Observatory (OSO) at 23%, and the European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere (ESO) at 27%. The telescope was designed and constructed by VERTEX Antennentechnik GmbH (Germany), under contract by MPIfR, and is based on a prototype antenna constructed for the ALMA project. Operation of APEX in Chajnantor is entrusted to ESO. The Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy is located in Bonn, Germany. ...
Onsala Space Observatory (OSO) is the Swedish National Facility for Radio Astronomy located 45 km south of Gothenburg in Onsala. ...
The European Southern Observatory (ESO) is an international astronomical organisation, composed and supported by ten countries from the European Union plus Switzerland. ...
APEX was officially inaugurated on September 25th, 2005.
Coordinates: 23°00′21″S, 67°45′32″W Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...
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