Owens Valley Radio Observatory

Owens Valley Radio Observatory
Alternative namesOVRO Edit this on Wikidata
Organization
LocationOwens Valley, California, Pacific States Region
Coordinates37°14′02″N 118°16′55″W / 37.2339°N 118.282°W / 37.2339; -118.282
Altitude1,222 m (4,009 ft) Edit this at Wikidata
Established1958 Edit this on Wikidata
Websitewww.ovro.caltech.edu Edit this at Wikidata
Telescopes
Owens Valley Radio Observatory is located in the United States
Owens Valley Radio Observatory
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Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO) is a radio astronomy observatory located near Big Pine, California (US) in Owens Valley. It lies east of the Sierra Nevada, approximately 350 kilometers (220 miles) north of Los Angeles and 20 kilometers (12 miles) southeast of Bishop. It was established in 1956, and is owned and operated by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). The Owens Valley Solar Array portion of the observatory has been operated by New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) since 1997.[1]

One of the ten dish-antenna radiotelescope systems of the Very Long Baseline Array is located on a sublease within the Owens Valley observatory.

  1. ^ Leverington, David (2017). Observatories and telescopes of modern times : ground-based optical and radio astronomy facilities since 1945. David Leverington. pp. 388–390. ISBN 9780521899932. Retrieved 1 January 2019.