References

Link to references Radio Telescope Design
Link to references Notes

Visit Radio Telescope of VATLY

The parameters of VATLY's telescope: 

- A mobile parabolic dish, 2.6 m in diameter, remotely

adjustable in elevation and azimuth

- Standard data collection consists in a sequence of

successive measurements of ∼ 8 s duration each, digitized in the form of a frequency

histogram covering ∼ 1.2 MHz in 156 bins of ∼ 7.8 kHz each.

- The angular aperture of the mainlobe (the “beam”) is well described by a Gaussian having a σ of 2.3 ◦ and the pointing accuracy is measured to be 0.22 ◦ in a × cos(h) and 0.11 ◦ in h where a and h are the

azimuth and elevation respectively.

Overview

Rotor box

Control of the Elevator

Piston on the elevator control

Block Diagram