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In September 2013 I visited the Chilbolton Observatory together with other members of the Andover Astronomical Society.
This is located quite close to where I live and is an interesting observatory with a mixture of radio telescopes and weather equipment. They only open the site for special open days, for which you must book. The main instrument is a 25m fully steerable dish, which these days is used for weather research. Recently (2010) they installed a LOFAR radio telescope. They have low and high frequency versions, which are linked with other instruments around the world.Here are a few of the pictures.
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The 25m steerable dish |
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The high frequency LOFAR array Radio Telescope and one of the aerials. |
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The low frequency LOFAR array Radio Telescope |
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6m fully steerable satellite dish. |
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Control room |
There are lots more details at the observatory website here.