Her Majesty, together with a group of school children, pushed a button and produced the first official scientific results with this "super radio telescope", last Saturday June 12:
http://confrontaal.org/wordpress/?p=5989
The optical fiber connections used by LOFAR will also be used to provide fast web access to 60 regional schools.
Solar observations are a key LOFAR project, and I am looking for good movies of a nice Solar burst, at several frequencies, as soon as possible, please.
In July of 2008 I prepared this page with LOFAR pictures:
http://herrero.freei.me/lofar/
Hercules A
Radio-Optical View of the Galaxy Hercules A - Many thanks to: NASA, ESA, S. Baum and C. O'Dea (RIT), R. Perley and W. Cotton (NRAO/AUI/NSF), and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)