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Encyclopedia > Paul Wild Observatory

A number of major astronomical facilities are located at the Paul Wild Observatory near Narrabri, Australia, including: Narrabri is a town of approximately 8000 persons and a Local Government Area in north-central New South Wales. ...

The observatory is named in honor of Australian radio astronomer Paul Wild. The Australia Telescope, also known as the Australia Telescope Compact Array is a radio telescope at the Paul Wild Observatory, 25 kilometres west of the town of Narrabri, Australia. ... The Parkes 64 metre radio telescope in New South Wales, Australia (the bigger of the two shown) In contrast to an ordinary telescope, which produces visible light images, a radio telescope sees radio waves emitted by radio sources, typically by means of a large parabolic (dish) antenna, or arrays of... The Narrabri Stellar Intensity Interferometer was the first astronomical instrument to measure the diameters of a large number of stars at visible wavelengths. ... John Paul Wild (born May 17, 1923 in Sheffield, England) is an Australian radio astronomer. ...




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Australia Telescope Compact Array - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (166 words)
The Australia Telescope Compact Array is a radio telescope at the Paul Wild Observatory, twenty five kilometres west of the town of Narrabri in Australia.
The telescope is an array of six identical twenty two meter diameter dishes, which commonly operate in aperture synthesis mode to produce radio images.
The array is frequently operated together with the sixty four meter dish at the Parkes Observatory and a single dish at Mopra (near Coonabarabran), to form a very long baseline interferometry array.
Telescopes (11048 words)
The observatory has two primary nighttime telescopes: the 60-inch telescope, built in 1908 is home to the HK Project and the Atmospheric Compensation Experiment; and the 100-inch (Hooker) telescope, built in 1917, which is availa(Hooker) telescope, built in 1917, which is available to the scientific community.
The Nançay Radio Observatory is a scientific department (the Unite Scientifique de Nançay) of the Paris Observatory, and it is also associated to the CNRS (the French National Scientific Research Counsil) as the "Unite de Service et de Recherche B704".
The Submillimeter Telescope Observatory (SMTO) is operated as a joint facility for the University of Arizona's Steward Observatory and the Max-Planck-Institut 's Steward Observatory and the Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie (Bonn).
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