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RE: Dwingeloo 25m Radio Telescope

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360 degree photo's of the Dwingeloo telescope

The lifting of the dish on June 5th attracted a lot of attention. ASTRON & JIVE staff, passers by, tourists and of course journalists all came to see this spectacular event. Lifting off the dish marked the beginning of the restoration of the Dwingeloo telescope.
A photographer of the ANP took amazing 360 degree photo's of the Dwingeloo telescope.
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DISH DWINGELOO TELESCOPE TEMPORARILY DISMANTLED

On Tuesday 5 June, the skyline of the National Park Dwingelderveld will change drastically temporarily. On that day at 14.00 hrs, the 25-meter dish of the ASTRON Dwingeloo Radio Telescopewill be lifted off its tower and placed on a special construction next to it, so that it can be restored. The dish, which weighs over 30,000 kilo's, has not been out of place since its construction in 1956 . Without restoration, the risk of the structure collapsing is too big and it would have to be taken down. After the dish of the telescope is removed, all steel parts will be sandblasted and repainted. If necessary, parts will be replaced. After this, the dish will again be put in place.
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Live Earth-Moon audio-visual performance

OPTICKS is a live performance using Earth-Moon-Earth technology.

The April 10th OPTICKS Global Astronomy Month performance will be webstreamed live from Dwingeloo radio telescope. This event will introduce the Moon Week program, which features a wide range of outreach activities aimed at scientists, astronomers and astronomy enthusiasts. The performance will be a live broadcast of radio signals bouncing off the moon, captured by the Dwingeloo antenna. The performance will also feature pre-recorded image sonifications using Design Rhythmics Sonification Research Lab methods, created by sonification researcher and musician/sound designer Marty Quinn, currently collaborating with NASA.
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Gewichten radiotelescoop Dwingeloo gestolen

Bij de radiotelescoop in Dwingeloo zijn zestien contragewichten gestolen. Het gaat om gewichten van elk 32 kilo die onder een afdekzijl stonden.
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The Dwingeloo Radio Observatory (near Dwingeloo, m. Westerveld, in the northeastern Netherlands), is a single dish radio telescope with a diameter of 25 m. Construction started in 1954, the telescope was completed in 1956. At that time it was the largest radio telescope in the world. As of 2000 it is no longer in operation in an official capacity and since August of 2009 is officially a Dutch industrial heritage monument.
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The historical 25m radio telescope at Dwingeloo, recently restored by the Dutch amateur radio astronomy society CAMRAS.
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