Afternoon with an original VLA antenna - Very Large Array - Todd Hakala

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Very Large Array

The Karl Jansky Very Large Array is located about 40 miles west of Socorro, New Mexico. It is a radio astronomy facility consisting of 27 moveable radio telescope dishes. It is on the San Augustin Plain, surrounded by mountain ranges to reduce the amount of human-made radio interference. For more information, visit https://science.nrao.edu/facilities/vla/

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One of the original 27 antennae (plus 1 spare). About every three or four months, the antennae are manually moved to a different configuration. Each configuration offers advantages varying between resolution and field of view. In configuration A, the telescope has a diameter of about 26 miles/42 kilometers. When in configuration D, all the dishes are within 2000 ft/600m of the center.

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Afternoon with an original VLA antenna - Very Large Array - Todd Hakala — One of the original 27 antennae (plus 1 spare). About every three or four months, the antennae are manually moved to a different configuration. Each configuration offers advantages varying between resolution and field of view. In configuration A, the telescope has a diameter of about 26 miles/42 kilometers. When in configuration D, all the dishes are within 2000 ft/600m of the center.