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Start Date:2002 Location:VLA Site, NM People:Flynn, Sara
Cull, Selby |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Student Programs Series Unit:Summer Student Programs Unit Type:Still Image Original Format of Digital Item:Digital photograph |
Description:Tucson 2002 summer students Sara Flynn and Selby Cull visit the VLA.
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Start Date:1966-02 Location:VLA Site, NM People:Wade, Campbell M.
Weber, Robert
Small, Max |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:VLA Unit Type:Still Image Subject:Facilities--VLA--Array Site |
Description:February 1966 on the Plains of St. Augustin, in the general area of the future intersection of the VLA arms. On the left is Cam Wade, and on the right is Max Small, both from NRAO. In the center is Robert Weber, a geologist with the NM Bureau of Mines in Socorro, who was very knowledgeable about the geology of the Plains of San Augustin, and was hugely helpful to the VLA project. Around his neck, Wade has the Finnish forester's compass that he used to check out all the potential VLA sites and to do the initial layout for the array. [show more]
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Location:VLA Site, NM |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:VLA Unit Type:Still Image Subject:Instruments--Very Large Array (VLA) |
Description:VLA antenna
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Location:VLA Site, NM |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:VLA Unit Type:Still Image Subject:Instruments--Very Large Array (VLA) |
Description:Antenna in Assembly Building
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Start Date:1979-03-12 Location:VLA Site, NM |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:VLA Unit Type:Still Image Subject:Instruments--Very Large Array (VLA) |
Description:VLA antenna
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Start Date:1979-03-12 Location:VLA Site, NM |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:VLA Unit Type:Still Image Subject:Instruments--Very Large Array (VLA) |
Description:On 30 January 1974, following several years of discussion on transporter requirements and possible designs (both within NRAO and with outside firms), E-Systems Inc. was awarded the contract for design and fabrication of transporter #1 for the VLA. The transporter was crucial to making the VLA a flexible instrument that could operate in multiple configurations. An 11 February 1977 memo states, "We tend to underestimate the complexity of the design and construction of the vehicle, which picks up 220-ton antennas and transports them through 90[deg] intersections. That it works as well as it does is an engineering achievement of the first order...." Transporter #1 was named Hein's Trein, honoring long-time NRAO Associate Director Hein Hvatum. [show more]
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Start Date:1979-10-16 Location:VLA Site, NM |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:VLA Unit Type:Still Image Subject:Instruments--Very Large Array (VLA) |
Description:VLA Antenna Assembly building, aerial view
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Start Date:1980-01-18 Location:VLA Site, NM |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:VLA Unit Type:Still Image Subject:Instruments--Very Large Array (VLA) |
Description:VLA antenna 19 crossing Rt. 60. On 18 January 1980, VLA crews moved antenna 5.2 km out the North Arm, thus necessitating the first antenna crossing of Rt. 60. Many turned out to witness the event, including NRAO personnel, news media, and the State Highway Dept., who came to measure traffic disruption and check safety procedures. All went smoothly. [show more]
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Start Date:1976-09-24 Location:VLA Site, NM People:Torson, Jim |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:VLA Unit Type:Still Image Subject:Instruments--Very Large Array (VLA)
Computers |
Description:Computer room at VLA site. Jim Torson working with the DEC PDP 11
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Start Date:1976-09-24 Location:VLA Site, NM People:Ehnebuske, Dave |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:VLA Unit Type:Still Image Subject:Instruments--Very Large Array (VLA)
Computers |
Description:Computer room at VLA site. Dave Ehnebuske and disk drives for the DEC 10 Model KI
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Start Date:1975-08-28 Location:VLA Site, NM |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:VLA Unit Type:Still Image Subject:Instruments--Very Large Array (VLA)
Construction |
Description:VLA construction: antenna #2 in the antenna assembly building
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Start Date:1976-09-15 Location:VLA Site, NM |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:VLA Unit Type:Still Image Subject:Instruments--Very Large Array (VLA)
Construction |
Description:Aerial view of VLA construction site, one antenna in Assembly Building, others on site
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Location:VLA Site, NM |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:VLA Unit Type:Still Image Subject:Instruments--Very Large Array (VLA)
Construction |
Description:VLA antenna under construction in Antenna Assembly Building
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Start Date:1978-05-02 Location:VLA Site, NM |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:VLA Unit Type:Still Image Subject:Instruments--Very Large Array (VLA)
Construction |
Description:VLA construction, antenna piers
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Location:VLA Site, NM |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:VLA Unit Type:Still Image Subject:Instruments--Very Large Array (VLA) |
Description:The Very Large Array VLA is a collection of 27 radio antennas located at the NRAO site in Socorro, New Mexico. Each antenna in the array measures 25 meters 82 feet in diameter and weighs about 230 tons.
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Location:VLA Site, NM |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:VLA Unit Type:Still Image Subject:Instruments--Very Large Array (VLA) |
Description:The Very Large Array VLA is a collection of 27 radio antennas located at the NRAO site in Socorro, New Mexico. Each antenna in the array measures 25 meters 82 feet in diameter and weighs about 230 tons.
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Location:VLA Site, NM |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:VLA Unit Type:Still Image Subject:Instruments--Very Large Array (VLA) |
Description:The Very Large Array VLA is a collection of 27 radio antennas located at the NRAO site in Socorro, New Mexico. Each antenna in the array measures 25 meters 82 feet in diameter and weighs about 230 tons.
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Location:VLA Site, NM |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:VLA Unit Type:Still Image Subject:Instruments--Very Large Array (VLA) |
Description:The Very Large Array telescope consists of twenty-seven, 230-ton, 25-meter diameter dish antennas that together they comprise a single radio telescope system. The VLA has made key observations of black holes and protoplanetary disks around young stars, discovered magnetic filaments and traced complex gas motions at the Milky Ways center, probed the Universes cosmological parameters, and provided new knowledge about the physical mechanisms that produce radio emission. [show more]
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Location:VLA Site, NM |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:VLA Unit Type:Still Image Subject:Instruments--Very Large Array (VLA) |
Description:The Very Large Array telescope consists of twenty-seven, 230-ton, 25-meter diameter dish antennas that together they comprise a single radio telescope system. The VLA has made key observations of black holes and protoplanetary disks around young stars, discovered magnetic filaments and traced complex gas motions at the Milky Ways center, probed the Universes cosmological parameters, and provided new knowledge about the physical mechanisms that produce radio emission. [show more]
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Location:VLA Site, NM |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:VLA Unit Type:Still Image Subject:Instruments--Very Large Array (VLA) |
Description:The Very Large Array telescope consists of twenty-seven, 230-ton, 25-meter diameter dish antennas that together they comprise a single radio telescope system. The VLA has made key observations of black holes and protoplanetary disks around young stars, discovered magnetic filaments and traced complex gas motions at the Milky Ways center, probed the Universes cosmological parameters, and provided new knowledge about the physical mechanisms that produce radio emission. [show more]
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Location:VLA Site, NM |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:VLA Unit Type:Still Image Subject:Instruments--Very Large Array (VLA) |
Description:The Very Large Array telescope consists of twenty-seven, 230-ton, 25-meter diameter dish antennas that together they comprise a single radio telescope system. The VLA has made key observations of black holes and protoplanetary disks around young stars, discovered magnetic filaments and traced complex gas motions at the Milky Ways center, probed the Universes cosmological parameters, and provided new knowledge about the physical mechanisms that produce radio emission. [show more]
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Location:VLA Site, NM |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:VLA Unit Type:Still Image Subject:Instruments--Very Large Array (VLA) |
Description:The Very Large Array telescope consists of twenty-seven, 230-ton, 25-meter diameter dish antennas that together they comprise a single radio telescope system. The VLA has made key observations of black holes and protoplanetary disks around young stars, discovered magnetic filaments and traced complex gas motions at the Milky Ways center, probed the Universes cosmological parameters, and provided new knowledge about the physical mechanisms that produce radio emission. [show more]
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Start Date:2003-12-20 Location:VLA Site, NM |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:VLA Unit Type:Still Image Subject:Instruments--Very Large Array (VLA) |
Description:Antennas stretch out towards the horizon in this configuration of the Very Large Array in Socorro, New Mexico.
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Location:VLA Site, NM |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:VLA Unit Type:Still Image Subject:Instruments--Very Large Array (VLA) |
Description:The NRAO's Very Large Array (VLA) telescope is located on the Plains of San Agustin, about 80 kilometers west of the Array Operations Center in Socorro, New Mexico. The VLA is composed of 27 individual antennas arranged in a "Y" pattern. Four times each year, the VLA antennas are moved into new configurations by a transporter that moves along dual sets of railroad tracks. In their closest configuration (about 1 kilometer wide) the VLA is able to image large portions of the sky. In its largest configuration (about 36 kilometers wide) the VLA is able to hone in on the fine details of astronomical objects. [show more]
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Location:VLA Site, NM |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:VLA Unit Type:Still Image Subject:Instruments--Very Large Array (VLA) |
Description:Landscape photo of the Very Large Array antenna with the moon.
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