42 Foot Telescope, 1966
Subject
Description
The 42 Foot portable telescope’s trailer carried the dish as stacked panels and also integrated the telescope’s donut-shaped drive and a small control room. In the mid-1960s, this little telescope served as the fourth, remote member of the Green Bank Interferometer, the test array for the Very Large Array.
Creator
Records of the NRAO
Rights
NRAO/AUI/NSF
Type
Still Image
Identifier
GB66-03018.jpg
Original Format of Digital Item
B&W negative
Location
Start Date
1966-07-20
Photo Credit
NRAO/AUI/NSF
Historical Negative #
GB66-03018
Date Negative Added
1966-07-20
Series
Photographs Series
Unit
42 Foot Telescope Unit
Range #
2A
Citation
Records of the NRAO, “42 Foot Telescope, 1966,” NRAO/AUI Archives, accessed May 2, 2024, https://www.nrao.edu/archives/items/show/29529.