Thursday, September 29, 2011

The Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory in Cambridge United Kingdom - images by Christian Monstein

Photography taken September 2011.

Christian designed and directs the e-Callisto International Network of Solar Radio Spectrometers, from the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule in Zürich:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETH_Zurich

Please see the e-Callisto network page for more details:
http://e-callisto.org/

Christian will give an e-Callisto workshop in Pune India next November:
http://rac.ncra.tifr.res.in/SRWS2011.html

please click images for enlargements
Two 13 meter dishes, part of the Ryle Telescope:
http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/telescopes/ryle/index.html


The Arcminute Microkelvin Imager
http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/telescopes/ami/


The remains of the array with which  Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Anthony Hewish  discovered pulsars in 1967


The central dish of the historic One-Mile Telescope:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-Mile_Telescope