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Start Date:1987-07-10 Location:Charlottesville, VA People:Garland, James
Crawford, Marshall
Morris, Greg
Escoffier, Ray
Kellermann, Kenneth I.
Thompson, Richard
Dowd, Andrew
Taylor, Garnett
Pospieszalski, Marian
Luckado, Lucky
Wireman, Bill
Johnson, Francoise
Horner, Neil, Jr.
Thach, Karen
Dillon, Matt
Weinreb, Sander
Liu, Z.-Y.
Harris, Ron
Bailey, Nancyjane
Shepherd, Amy
Spaulding, Gene |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:Employees Unit Type:Still Image Subject:Employees
Instruments--Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) |
Description:Initial construction funding for the VLBA was received in May 1985. Charlottesville staff working on VLBA gather on the front steps of the Central Development Lab's Ivy Rd. building on 10 July 1987. Left to right - far back: James Garland, Marshall Crawford, Greg Morris; second back: Ray Escoffier, Ken Kellermann, Dick Thompson, unidentified UVA student, Andrew Dowd, Garnett Taylor; middle: Marian Pospieszalski, Lucky Luckado, Bill Wireman, Francoise Johnson, Neil Horner, Karen Thach, Matt Dillon; front: unidentified UVA student, Sandy Weinreb, Z.-Y. Liu, Ron Harris, Nancyjane Bailey, Amy Shepherd, Gene Spaulding. [show more]
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Start Date:1993-08-20 Location:Socorro, NM People:Goss, Miller
Cornwell, Tim
Brown, Robert L.
Napier, Peter
Finley, David
Sramek, Dick
Shaffer, David |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:VLBA Unit Type:Still Image Subject:Instruments--Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA)
Events--Dedications |
Description:Left to right: Miller Goss, Tim Cornwell, Bob Brown, Peter Napier, Dave Shaffer, Dave Finley (at podium), Dick Sramek. This ceremony was held in the VLBA Operations area of the Array Operations Center in Socorro. The map behind Peter Napier contains LEDs in the locations of the VLBA antennas. The table to the left of the podium holds a bar-code reader that was triggered by Sen. Pete Domenici, causing the VLBA antennas all to begin pointing at a specific source. Their azimuths and elevations began changing on the monitor behind Napier and, one by one, from East to West, the LEDs indicating the antennas lit up. [show more]
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Start Date:1992 Location:Fort Davis, TX |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:VLBA Unit Type:Still Image Subject:Instruments--Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA)
Facilities--VLBA--Fort Davis, Texas |
Description:The VLBA site in Fort Davis, Texas.
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Start Date:1974-06 Location:Green Bank, WV People:Balister, Michael
Payne, John
Kellermann, Kenneth I. |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:140 Foot Telescope Unit Type:Still Image Original Format of Digital Item:Slide Subject:Electronics
Instruments--Very Large Array (VLA)
Instruments--Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) |
Description:In June 1974, John Payne (back to camera), Mike Balister, and Ken Kellermann consider the four frequency Cassegrain receiver and feed assembly, with optics designed by Peter Napier, that was the prototype system for the VLA and was also used for the VLBA. It was a new and innovative concept, first developed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for use on their Deep Space Network antennas, where the four feeds were offset from the electrical axis and could be illuminated by rotating the asymmetric subreflector. Here it is being installed for testing on the 140ft antenna in Green Bank. Mike says, "Judging by the way I was clutching my head [Ken] must have been giving us a hard time." Ken says he was the project scientist "assigned to hassle the Electronics Division." He adds, "Note I was comfortably sitting down and seem to be the only one that didn’t look puzzled, as appropriate for an advisor." After installation of the Cassegrain cabin on the 140 ft telescope the system was integrated and evaluated by Chuck Brockaway and Tom Dunbrack. [show more]
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Start Date:2001-04 Location:Kitt Peak, AZ |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:VLBA Unit Type:Still Image Subject:Instruments--Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA)
Facilities--VLBA--Kitt Peak, Arizona |
Description:The VLBA site in Kitt Peak, Arizona.
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Start Date:1992-01-27 Location:Mauna Kea, HI |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:VLBA Unit Type:Still Image Subject:Instruments--Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA)
Facilities--VLBA--Mauna Kea, Hawaii |
Description:In May 1982 NRAO submitted to NSF the proposal to build and operate what became the Very Long Baseline Array. Construction began in Pie Town NM in February 1986 on the first VLBA antenna; construction on the tenth and final antenna on Mauna Kea HI was completed in April 1993, and on 29 May 1993 the first observations were made using all ten VLBA stations. In this photo, taken by Peter Napier on 27 January 1992, the Mauna Kea antenna is in the initial stages of construction. [show more]
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Start Date:2005-04-13 Location:St. Croix, Virgin Islands |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:VLBA Unit Type:Still Image Original Format of Digital Item:Digital photograph Subject:Instruments--Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) |
Description:Repairing rust damage to St. Croix VLBA antenna. The antenna is close to the ocean, so rust is a continuing problem.
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Start Date:2005-04-13 Location:St. Croix, Virgin Islands |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:VLBA Unit Type:Still Image Original Format of Digital Item:Digital photograph Subject:Instruments--Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) |
Description:Repairing rust damage to St. Croix VLBA antenna. The antenna is close to the ocean, so rust is a continuing problem.
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Start Date:2005-04-13 Location:St. Croix, Virgin Islands |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:VLBA Unit Type:Still Image Original Format of Digital Item:Digital photograph Subject:Instruments--Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) |
Description:Repairing rust damage to St. Croix VLBA antenna. The antenna is close to the ocean, so rust is a continuing problem.
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Start Date:2004-10-26 Location:St. Croix, Virgin Islands |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:VLBA Unit Type:Still Image Original Format of Digital Item:Digital photograph Subject:Instruments--Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) |
Description:Rust damage to St. Croix VLBA antenna. The antenna is close to the ocean, so rust is a continuing problem.
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Location:Brewster, WA |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:VLBA Unit Type:Still Image Subject:Instruments--Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA)
Facilities--VLBA--Brewster, Washington |
Description:The VLBA site in Brewster, Washington.
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Location:Fort Davis, TX |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:VLBA Unit Type:Still Image Subject:Instruments--Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA)
Facilities--VLBA--Fort Davis, Texas |
Description:The VLBA site in Fort Davis, Texas.
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Location:Hancock, NH |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:VLBA Unit Type:Still Image Subject:Instruments--Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA)
Facilities--VLBA--Hancock, New Hampshire |
Description:The VLBA site at Hancock, New Hampshire.
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Location:Kitt Peak, AZ |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:VLBA Unit Type:Still Image Subject:Instruments--Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA)
Facilities--VLBA--Kitt Peak, Arizona |
Description:The VLBA site on Kitt Peak, Arizona.
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Location:Los Alamos, NM |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:VLBA Unit Type:Still Image Subject:Instruments--Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA)
Facilities--VLBA--Los Alamos, New Mexico |
Description:The VLBA site in Los Alamos, New Mexico.
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Location:Mauna Kea, HI |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:VLBA Unit Type:Still Image Subject:Instruments--Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA)
Facilities--VLBA--Mauna Kea, Hawaii |
Description:VLBA antenna on Mauna Kea, HI, the last VLBA antenna constructed.
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Location:North Liberty, IA |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:VLBA Unit Type:Still Image Subject:Instruments--Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA)
Facilities--VLBA--North Liberty, Iowa |
Description:The VLBA site in North Liberty, Iowa.
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Location:Owens Valley, CA |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:VLBA Unit Type:Still Image Subject:Instruments--Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA)
Facilities--VLBA--Owens Valley, California |
Description:The VLBA site in Owens Valley, California.
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Location:Pie Town, NM |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:VLBA Unit Type:Still Image Subject:Instruments--Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA)
Facilities--VLBA--Pie Town, New Mexico |
Description:VLBA antenna at Pie Town, NM, the first VLBA antenna constructed.
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Location:St. Croix, Virgin Islands |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:VLBA Unit Type:Still Image Subject:Instruments--Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA)
Facilities--VLBA--St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands |
Description:The VLBA site at St. Croix, Virgin Islands.
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Start Date:1986-09-25 Location:Pie Town, NM |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:VLBA Unit Type:Still Image Original Format of Digital Item:Slide Subject:Instruments--Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA)
Construction |
Description:Construction of the first VLBA antenna, Pie Town NM
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Start Date:1986-09-25 Location:Pie Town, NM |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:VLBA Unit Type:Still Image Original Format of Digital Item:Slide Subject:Instruments--Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA)
Construction |
Description:Construction of the first VLBA antenna, Pie Town NM
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Start Date:1986-09-22 Location:Pie Town, NM |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:VLBA Unit Type:Still Image Original Format of Digital Item:Slide Subject:Instruments--Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA)
Construction |
Description:Construction of the first VLBA antenna, Pie Town NM
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Start Date:1986-09-07 Location:Pie Town, NM |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:VLBA Unit Type:Still Image Original Format of Digital Item:Slide Subject:Instruments--Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA)
Construction |
Description:Construction of the first VLBA antenna, Pie Town NM. Employees of the VLBA antenna contractor, Radiation Systems Inc, are setting the azimuth track for the Pie Town antenna in preparation for grouting the track.
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Start Date:1986-09-04 Location:Pie Town, NM |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:VLBA Unit Type:Still Image Original Format of Digital Item:Slide Subject:Instruments--Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA)
Construction |
Description:Construction of the first VLBA antenna, Pie Town NM
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