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List of radio telescopes
| Name | Remarks | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Algonquin Radio Observatory | 46 metre dish, now no longer operational | Algonquin Park, Ontario, Canada |
| Arecibo Observatory | Also known as: Arecibo radio telescope or NAIC | Arecibo, Puerto Rico |
| Australia Telescope Compact Array | 6 dish aperture synthesis array, part of Australia Telescope National Facility | Narrabri, Australia |
| Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex | Part of Deep Space Network, located near Canberra in the Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve | Australian Capital Territory, Australia |
| Effelsberg | 100 m dish operated by Max Planck Institut fur Radioastronomie | Bad Münstereifel-Effelsberg near Bonn, Germany |
| Five College Radio Astronomical Observatory | Operated by UMass Amherst | Amherst, Massachusetts, USA |
| Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope (GMRT) | World's largest radio telescope at meter wavelengths. Operated by National Centre for Radio Astrophysics | Pune, India |
| Green Bank Telescope | World's largest fully mobile radio telescope | Green Bank, West Virginia, USA |
| Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex (GDSCC) | Also known as Goldstone Observatory | Goldstone, California, USA |
| Goldstone Observatory | Also known as Goldstone Deep Space Network | Goldstone, California, USA |
| HartRAO | Also known as Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory | Johannesburg, South Africa |
| Jodrell Bank Observatory | 76 m Lovell Telescope, 25 m Mk II Telescope, 42 ft (12.8 m) Telescope and 7 m Telescope (actually 6.4 m diameter) | Cheshire, UK |
| Kitt Peak 12 m | Out of commission | Tucson, Arizona, USA |
| LOFAR | LOw Frequency ARray, | Netherlands, Germany |
| MERLIN | Cambridge 32 m at Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, Darnhall, Defford, Tabley (also known as Pickmere) and Knockin. Also includes the Lovell and Mark II telescopes at Jodrell Bank. | UK |
| Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope | Operated by the School of Physics at the University of Sydney. East-west arm of the former Molonglo Cross Telescope, approximately 800 m in length. Operates at 843 MHz. | Molonglo (near Canberra, Australia) |
| Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory | The Ryle Telescope consists of 8 13 m dishes, and is currently used as one part of the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager. Also at the observatory are some of the oldest radio interferometers. | Cambridge, UK |
| Nançay Radio Telescope | Nançay , France | |
| National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center (NAIC) | Also known as Arecibo Observatory or Arecibo radio telescope | Arecibo, Puerto Rico |
| National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) | ||
| Onsala Space Observatory | 25 m Telescope, 20 m Telescope and 15 m Swedish-ESO Submillimetre Telescope (SEST) based at ESO in La Silla, Chile | Onsala , Sweden |
| Parkes Observatory | 64 m Telescope (largest movable dish in the Southern Hemisphere), part of Australia Telescope National Facility | Parkes, Australia |
| Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute | Two 26 m dishes | Rosman, North Carolina, USA |
| Torun Centre for Astronomy | RT4 (32 m) parabolic antenna and RT3 (15 m) antenna. | Torun, Poland |
| Very Large Array | Array of 25 dishes. Part of NRAO. | Socorro, New Mexico, USA |
| Very Long Baseline Array | Array system of radio telescopes located around the world; controlled remotely from the Array Operations Center . | Socorro, New Mexico USA (operations center) |
| Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT) | Array of radio telescopes [1] | Westerbork, Netherlands |
| Zond 3 | Russian spacecraft carrying a radio Telescope |
Related topics
- List of observatories
- Radio telescopes
- A more complete list of radio telescopes can be found by looking at the radio telescopes category
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