The Mullard observatory is a pretty cool site hosting a shit load of interesting stuff. I first visited the site back in 2015 and climbed the cluster of dishes positioned out on their own.
The report can be found here.
The history
The Mullard observatory is a pretty cool site hosting a shit load of interesting stuff. I first visited the site back in 2015 and climbed the cluster of dishes positioned out on their own.
The report can be found here.
The history The Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory(MRAO) is home to a number of large aperture synthesis radio telescopes, including the One-Mile Telescope, 5-km Ryle Telescope, and the Arcminute Micro kelvin Imager. Radio interferometry started in the mid-1940s on the outskirts of Cambridge...
I had always planned a revisit but other stuff just got in the way, well last month myself and RA decided to venture over and have a look at the rest of the site.
But what really caught our attention was the 4C Array radio telescope.
The 4C Array is a cylindrical paraboloid radio telescope located at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, near Cambridge, England. It is similar in design to the Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope. It is 450 m long, 20 m wide, with a second, moveable element, now mostly removed some of it is still visible. It was the first large aperture synthesis telescope built in 1958, it was also the first new instrument to be bui