A new radio telescope, designed for operation at wavelengths previously inaccessible to radio‐astronomical observations, was dedicated on June 14 at the University of Texas Electrical Engineering Research Laboratory near Austin. The instrument is a parabolic reflector, 16 feet in diameter, and will normally operate at wavelengths between 30 and 2 millimeters. However, the accuracy of the reflector is great enough to permit observations at frequencies up to 300 Gc. The telescope is housed in a 35‐foot dome of the type used to house optical telescopes, and is said to be the only radio telescope so sheltered.
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© 1963 American Institute of Physics.
1963
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