Sunday, July 6, 2014

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