The Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics at the University of Manchester is among the largest astrophysics groups in the UK. It includes the Jodrell Bank Observatory, the MERLIN/VLBI National Facility
The Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory, part of the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics
Lovell Telescope
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The Lovell Telescope is a radio telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory, near Goostrey, Cheshire, in the north-west of England. Completed in 1957, the telescope was the largest steerable dish radio tele
Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics
…gravitational lenses, and was heavily involved with the tracking of space probes at the start of the Space Age. The main telescope at the observatory is the Lovell Telescope, which is the third largest steerable radio telescope in the world. There are three other active telescopes located at the observatory; the Mark II…
The Lovell Telescope
The Mark 1 under construction
Lovell Telescope in 1961
The Mark 1 under construction