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Start Date:1969-10 Location:Crimea, USSR |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:Non-NRAO Instruments Unit Type:Still Image Original Format of Digital Item:B&W negative Subject:Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) |
Description:22 meter radio telescope in the Crimea, used with the 140 Foot Telescope in Green Bank for the first US-USSR VLBI experiments in 1969
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Start Date:1969-10 |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:VLBI Series Unit:VLBI Photographs Unit Type:Still Image Original Format of Digital Item:B&W negative Subject:Electronics
Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) |
Description:Charlie, the rubidium clock, carried by Barry Clark from the US to Crimea (via New York, Amsterdam, Bonn, Copenhagen, and Moscow) for use in the May 1971 US-USSR VLBI experiment. Prepared for travel in his special case, Charlie weighed 70 kilograms. His trip included air freight (and brief but worrisome disappearances from its system), suspicious customs agents, bonding agents, reams of paperwork, calls to embassies, automobile trunks too small to carry him, breaker-tripping encounters with 220 volt lines, and several near death experiences as his charge almost ran out. [show more]
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Start Date:1997 Location:Green Bank, WV People:Stennes, Mike
Lockman, Jay
Langston, Glen
D'Addario, Larry
Morgan, Greg
Balser, Dana
Hall, Rich
Brown, Robert L.
Fisher, Rick
Grammer, Wes
Creager, Ray
Ghigo, Frank |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:NRAO Employees Unit Subunit:NRAO Social Events Subunit Type:Still Image Subject:Instruments--45 Foot Telescope
Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) |
Description:Orbiting VLBI party in Green Bank to celebrate the the successful February 1997 launch of the Japanese HALCA satellite and the participation of Green Bank's 45 foot telescope in its tracking. Left to right: Mike Stennes, Jay Lockman, Glen Langston, Larry D'Addario, Greg Morgan (background), Dana Balser, Rich Hall, Bob Brown, Rick Fisher, Wes Grammer (far background), Ray Creager (far background), Frank Ghigo. [show more]
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Start Date:1971-07-00 People:Efanoff, Ivan |
Creator:Papers of Kenneth I. Kellermann Series:Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) Series Unit:US-USSR VLBI Experiments Unit Type:Still Image Original Format of Digital Item:Slide Subject:Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) |
Description:Dinner to celebrate a successful VLBI experiment. Observatory manager Ivan Efanoff is in the striped shirt.
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Start Date:1971-07-00 People:Moiseyev, Ivan |
Creator:Papers of Kenneth I. Kellermann Series:Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) Series Unit:US-USSR VLBI Experiments Unit Type:Still Image Original Format of Digital Item:Slide Subject:Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) |
Description:Dinner to celebrate a successful VLBI experiment. Ivan Moiseyev, Director of the Radio Observatory proposing a toast.
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Start Date:1971-07-00 People:Efanoff, Ivan |
Creator:Papers of Kenneth I. Kellermann Series:Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) Series Unit:US-USSR VLBI Experiments Unit Type:Still Image Original Format of Digital Item:Slide Subject:Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) |
Description:Dinner to celebrate a successful VLBI experiment. Observatory manager Ivan Efanoff is in the striped shirt.
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Start Date:1971-07-00 |
Creator:Papers of Kenneth I. Kellermann Series:Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) Series Unit:US-USSR VLBI Experiments Unit Type:Still Image Original Format of Digital Item:Slide Subject:Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) |
Description:Local workers unpacking equipment at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory. The metal hoop (ring) is an antenna to receive the Loran timing signals.
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Start Date:1969-10 Location:Crimea, USSR People:Moiseyev, Ivan
Payne, John
Efanov, Victor |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:VLBI Series Unit:VLBI Photographs Unit Type:Still Image Original Format of Digital Item:B&W negative Subject:Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) |
Description:In October 1969 during the depths of the Cold War, after more than a year of scientific, diplomatic, and bureaucratic planning (and reams of paperwork), and followed by innumerable technical and logistical problems, the first US-USSR VLBI observations were made between the NRAO's 140 Foot Telescope in Green Bank and the Lebedev Physical Institute's 22 meter radio telescope in Crimea. Teams of NRAO and Soviet observers were on site for the hands-on observations. As described by Ken Kellermann in his series of articles in The Observer, a party was planned to follow the end of observing, "but as the last hour approached the observing room began to fill with spectators. When the last tape started the Russians produced, in their usual efficient manner, a round of glasses and several bottles of Cognac, and with toasts of Soviet-American friendship and cooperation, the first Green Bank-Crimea VLBI experiment was declared a success on the basis of having analyzed less than one half of one percent of the data." Celebrating in this photo are, standing left to right, Ivan Moiseyev (Director of the Crimean radio telescope), John Payne (NRAO), Victor Efanov (telescope staff). Seated is an unnamed member of the Crimean telescope staff. [show more]
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Start Date:1970 |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:VLBI Series Unit:VLBI Photographs Unit Type:Still Image Original Format of Digital Item:B&W negative Subject:Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) |
Description:Cake celebrating USA-USSR VLBI experiment
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Location:VLA Site, NM |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:VLA Unit Type:Still Image Original Format of Digital Item:Slide Subject:Instruments--Very Large Array (VLA)
Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) |
Description:VLBI equipment racks at the VLA
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Start Date:1971-03-10 |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:VLBI Series Unit:VLBI Photographs Unit Type:Still Image Original Format of Digital Item:Map Subject:Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) |
Description:Map of early VLBI baselines
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