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Websites and resources about Astronomy - Radio

Caltech Submillimeter Observatory (CSO)
A 10.4-meter diameter, submillimeter spectrum telescope. Situated at the top of Mauna Kea, Big island, Hawaii.
http://www.submm.caltech.edu/cso/

BIMA Home Page
This is the main page for the Berkeley-Illinois-Maryland Association (BIMA)
http://bima.astro.umd.edu/

DRAO Home Page
Contact Information
http://www.drao.nrc.ca/

National Centre for Radio Astrophysics
India
http://www.ncra.tifr.res.in

Arecibo Observatory
The largest radio telescope in the world.
http://www.naic.edu/

FCRAO Home Page
The largest radio telescope in the world.
http://donald.phast.umass.edu/~fcrao/

NRAO Very Long Baseline Array
The largest radio telescope in the world.
http://www.nrao.edu/vlba/html/VLBA.html

Deep Space Network (DSN)
NASA's worldwide antenna network to support the exploration of the solar system.
http://deepspace.jpl.nasa.gov/dsn/index.html

Australia Telescope Compact Array Home Page
NASA's worldwide antenna network to support the exploration of the solar system.
http://wwwnar.atnf.csiro.au/

Radio Astronomy and SETI - Big Ear Radio Observatory
This Kraus-type radio telescope, larger than three football fields, was famous for the Wow! Signal and for the longest-running SETI project.
http://www.bigear.org/

The Onsala Space Observatory Home Page
This Kraus-type radio telescope, larger than three football fields, was famous for the Wow! Signal and for the longest-running SETI project.
http://www.oso.chalmers.se/

Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe (JIVE)
This Kraus-type radio telescope, larger than three football fields, was famous for the Wow! Signal and for the longest-running SETI project.
http://www.nfra.nl/jive

Observatorio Astronomico Nacional
National Astronomical Observatory of Spain
http://www.oan.es/

KOSMA Home Page (University of Cologne)
National Astronomical Observatory of Spain
http://www.ph1.uni-koeln.de/kosma.html

Radio Astronomy at the University of Indianapolis
National Astronomical Observatory of Spain
http://radio.uindy.edu/radio/

The University of Calgary Radio Astronomy Laboratory
National Astronomical Observatory of Spain
http://www.ras.ucalgary.ca/

Cavendish Astrophysics Homepage
Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory
http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/

MOST
The Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope
http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/astrop/most/

Mauritius Radio Telescope (MRT)
The Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope
http://icarus.uom.ac.mu/

University of Tasmania Radio Observatories
Two radio observatories run by the physics department: Mount Pleasant Observatory, near Hobart, Tasmania and Ceduna Observatory, South Australia.
http://www-ra.phys.utas.edu.au/observatories/

Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO)
CalTech radio observatory.
http://www.ovro.caltech.edu/

ATNF - Australia Telescope National Facility
Operates the Australia Telescope, a set of radio telescopes in New South Wales. These telescopes are used, individually or together, to study objects in the Universe ranging from the remains of dead stars to entire galaxies.
http://wwwatnf.atnf.csiro.au/

Jodrell Bank - Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories (NRAL)
VLBI National Facility which is operated by the University on behalf of PPARC.
http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/

James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT)
A 15-meter diameter, submillimeter spectrum telescope. Situated near the summit of Mauna Kea, Big island, Hawaii.
http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/JCMT/home.html

The Very Small Array (VSA)
in Tenerife (Canary Islands). Designed to study fluctuations in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) thought to originate from the period immediately following the big bang. Operated by Cambridge and Manchester Universities (UK).
http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/telescopes/vsa/

Mets%c3%a1¤hovi Radio Observatory
A research institute of the Helsinki University of Technology, Finland.
http://kurp-www.hut.fi/

National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NARO)
Research facility of National Science Foundation, operates many radio telescope observatories.
http://www.nrao.edu/

Effelsberg Telescope
The world's largest fully steerable radio telescope, the 100 m antenna of Effelsberg in Bonn, Germany, operated since August 1972.
http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/div/effelsberg/index_e.html

Atacama Large Millimetre Array Project (ALMA)
An array with a collecting area of up to 10,000 square meters. With baselines foreseen to extend to 10 Km, the angular resolution provided by the new instrument will be that of a diffraction limited 4m optical telescope.
http://www.alma.nrao.edu/

Ventspils International Radio Astronomy Center (VIRAC)
The main purpose is to take part in observations at high angular resolution of faint sources of cosmic natural and artificial radiation. Overview, photographs, staff, papers, news, and related links. In Latvia.
http://www.virac.lv/

Submillimeter Array (SMA)
An eight element submillimeter interferometer being constructed on the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii.
http://sma-www.harvard.edu/

Very Large Array (VLA)
A 36-km diameter radio telescope consisting of 27 individual dishes arranged in a Y shape. Featured in the films 2001 and Contact (the latter half).
http://www.vla.nrao.edu/

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