GMRT @ NCRA-TIFR
The Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT), is an array of thirty fully steerable parabolic radio telescopes of 45 metre diameter, observing at metre wavelengths. It is an interferometric array with baselines of up to 25 kilometres. It is the largest and most sensitive radio telescope array in the world at low frequencies. It was conceived and built from 1984 to 1996. (website)
Location Details
| Location | about 10 km east of Narayangaon, Pune, India |
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| Coordinates | 19°05′47″N 74°02′59″E |
| Altitude | around 650m above sea-level |
| Type | parabolic radio telescopes |
| Size | 45m |
| Collecting area | 47,713m2 |
| Operated by | NCRA - TIFR, Pune |