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What Does a Radio Telescope Observatory Control Room Look Like?
If you google “VLA control room” and select the images found, you will get a very good sampling of…

Backyard Telescope Recommendation
Your question has been answered before on this blog. See our answer to the “Advice for Purchasing a First…

How Does the Spacing of the Radio Telescopes in the VLA Affect How it Does Scientific Measurements?
I think that our previous answer to the general question about how a radio interferometer works provides an answer…

Direction of Arrival (DoA) Estimation in Radio Astronomy
In fact, Direction of Arrival (DoA) is a fundamental aspect of how all radio telescopes collect data. Essentially all…

How Much Observing Time Does the VLA Lose to Weather or Equipment Failure?
Typically the VLA loses only a small amount of time, much less than 5% of the total available observing…