List of Radio Telescopes - Africa

Africa

Name Location Remarks
HartRAO 26m Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory, Johannesburg, South Africa 26 m dish.
HartRAO XDM Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory, Johannesburg, South Africa 15m Experimental Demonstrator Model originally build as a technology demonstrator for MeerKAT
Indlebe Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa 5 meter parabolic reflector
KAT-7 Carnarvon, South Africa Seven, 12 meter dishes, measuring 1200-1950 MHz.
MeerKAT Carnarvon, South Africa A pathfinder for the Square Kilometre Array.
Precision Array for Probing the Epoch of Reionization (PAPER) Carnarvon, South Africa Sixty-four, two-meter dishes, measuring 100-200 MHz. Currently, this interferometer has more dishes than any other.

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