EVN telescopes

Hidden in the dense coastal forests of Slītere a mysterious ex-Soviet spy center lays now used for science. Almost everyone including me who entered the site of the two large radio telescopes called Irbene, are amazed by the surrealistic atmosphere made by the abandoned ghost town and two large radio dishes in the middle of nowhere.

The Observatory of Yebes is operated by the Instituto Geográfico Nacional (a Directorate General of the Ministry for Public Works, 'Ministerio de Fomento'). The site is at a height of approximately 930m above sea level in the Guadalajara province (about 80km from Madrid). It includes four main scientific installations.

The Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe was formally established in 1993 by the Consortium for VLBI in Europe. The Institute is located in Dwingeloo, the Netherlands, and hosted by ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy.

The Toruń Centre for Astronomy is an optical and radio observatory located about 15 km north of Toruń, Poland.

The Noto VLBI Station is a radio observatory located on Sicily, southern Italy, outside of the city of Noto. The facility is operated by the Istituto di Radioastronomia di Bologna.

The Medicina 32m antenna is located at the Medicina Radio Astronomy Station. The station is run by the Istituto di Radioastronomia and is located about 33 km east of Bologna.

The Mark II is a radio telescope located at Jodrell Bank Observatory, near Goostrey, Cheshire, in the north-west of England.

The 25.6 m diameter, polar mount decimeter-wave telescope in Onsala is equipped with receivers for frequencies up to 7 GHz. The telescope was built in 1963.

The 20 m diameter, radome enclosed, millimetre wave telescope in Onsala is equipped with receivers for frequencies up to 116 GHz. The telescope was built in 1975-76 and upgraded in 1992.

Metsähovi telescope