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    The Arecibo Telescope was a 305 m (1,000 ft) spherical reflector radio telescope built into a natural sinkhole at the Arecibo Observatory located near...
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    Esperanza, Arecibo, Puerto Rico owned by the US National Science Foundation (NSF). The observatory's main instrument was the Arecibo Telescope, a 305 m...
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  • modulated radio waves at a ceremony to mark the remodeling of the Arecibo Telescope in Puerto Rico on 16 November 1974. The message was aimed at the current...
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    Observatories online. The basic design of FAST is similar to the former Arecibo Telescope. Both designs had reflectors installed in natural hollows within karst...
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    housed the Arecibo telescope, the world's largest radio telescope until July 2016, is located in the municipality. The Arecibo telescope collapsed on...
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    radio telescopes including The Big Ear in its discovery of the Wow! signal 1,406 MHz and 430 MHz The Waterhole: 1,420 to 1,666 MHz The Arecibo Observatory...
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  • radio telescope Arecibo Telescope University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo (UPR-Arecibo), Arecibo, Puerto Rico, USA Arecibo Light (Spanish: Faro de Arecibo),...
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  • telescopes. The most recently deployed SERENDIP spectrometer, SERENDIP VI, was installed at both the Arecibo Telescope and the Green Bank Telescope in...
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    observational data from the Arecibo radio telescope and the Green Bank Telescope. The data is taken "piggyback" or "passively" while the telescope is used for other...
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    suspension system for the at-the-time largest radio telescope in the world (the Arecibo telescope). During WWII he served in the United States Army and...
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    (330 ft) Effelsberg telescope (1971). The huge 1,000-foot (300 m) Arecibo telescope (1963) was so large that it was fixed into a natural depression in...
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    completely surrounded by them, and the Arecibo Telescope which was built into a natural sinkhole surrounded by mogotes in Arecibo. The San Patricio State Forest...
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    Primary mirror (category Optical telescope components)
    mirrors used in optical telescopes. The Arecibo Telescope used a 305 m dish, which was the world largest single-dish radio telescope fixed to the ground....
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    prepared, to join the telescope to the European VLBI Network. Implementation was planned to begin in 2019.[citation needed] Arecibo Telescope (ground bowl fixed...
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    yards) aperture fixed focus radio telescope of the Arecibo Observatory (now defunct). Freely steerable radio telescopes with diameters up to 100 metres...
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    interferometer with the Arecibo radio telescope in 1969. In 1980, it was used as part of the new MERLIN array with a series of smaller radio telescopes controlled...
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  • Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope; the Yebes 40m, operated by the Observatorio Astronomico Nacional; the 300m dish of Arecibo, located in Puerto Rico;...
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    observatory is home to the Allen Telescope Array and one of the three CHIME FRB outriggers, as well a number of other smaller telescopes and instruments. Hat Creek...
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  • Collins of Farin and Associates in Wisconsin, USA using the giant Arecibo Telescope in Puerto Rico. It was observed three times (for a total of about...
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    Cathedral) Completed in 1311, spire blown off in 1549 Telescope Arecibo Telescope  Puerto Rico Arecibo, Puerto Rico 150 492 18°20′39″N 66°45′10″W / 18.34417°N...
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    Submillimeter Telescope (SEST)". Archived from the original on 2012-07-30. Retrieved 2008-08-26. "Puerto Rico: Iconic Arecibo Observatory telescope collapses"...
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    (80 km) west of Socorro. The VLA comprises twenty-eight 25-meter radio telescopes (twenty-seven of which are operational while one is always rotating through...
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    European VLBI Network (category Interferometric telescopes)
    The European VLBI Network (EVN) is a network of radio telescopes located primarily in Europe and Asia, with additional antennas in South Africa and Puerto...
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    Observatory (/ˈdʒɒdrəl/ JOD-rəl) in Cheshire, England hosts a number of radio telescopes as part of the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics at the University...
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    Radio Telescope is a historical radio telescope in the Eifel mountain range in Germany, situated 12 km from the Effelsberg 100-m Radio Telescope. Germany's...
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  • secondary. A Gregorian telescope circa 1735 Side view 1873 diagram of a Gregorian telescope The MeerKAT, the Green Bank Telescope, the Arecibo Observatory, and...
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    detected on August 15, 1977, by Ohio State University's Big Ear radio telescope in the United States, then used to support the search for extraterrestrial...
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  • of the joint Soviet–American mission, against the backdrop of the Arecibo telescope; the film approximates this opening scene, instead using the Very...
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    radio antennas referred to as radio telescopes, that are either used singularly, or with multiple linked telescopes utilizing the techniques of radio interferometry...
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    discovery of the Crab Pulsar, David Richards discovered (using the Arecibo Telescope) that it spins down and, therefore, loses its rotational energy. Thomas...
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