Europe
European VLBI Network(EVN)
| Name | Location | Remarks |
|---|---|---|
| Effelsberg | Bad Münstereifel-Effelsberg near Bonn, Germany | 100 m dish operated by Max Planck Institut für Radioastronomie, operates at 395 MHz to 95 GHz |
| RATAN-600 | Zelenchukskaya, Russia | 600 m dish, operates at 610 MHz to 30 GHz, world's largest diameter individual radio telescope |
| Ukrainian T-shaped Radio telescope, second modification (UTR-2) | Grakovo, Kharkiv, Ukraine | World's largest radio telescope at decametre wavelengths (max. collective area 150 000 m²). |
| Lovell Telescope | Jodrell Bank Observatory, Cheshire, England | 76 m dish |
| Yevpatoria RT-70 radio telescope | Center for deep space communications, Yevpatoria, Crimea, Ukraine | RT-70, 70 m telescope, operating range 5–300 GHz |
| TNA 1500 | Kalyasin, Russia | 64 m fully steerable dish, up to 5.86 GHz |
| TNA 1500 | Medvezhji Ozera(Bear Lakes), Russia | 64 m fully steerable dish, up to 5.86 GHz |
| Yebes RT 40 m | Observatorio Astronómico Nacional, Yebes, Guadalajara, Spain | 40 m parabolic steerable telescope for mm and cm wavelengths |
| Toruń RT4 32 m | Toruń Centre for Astronomy, Toruń, Poland | RT4 (32 m) parabolic antenna |
| RT-32 | Ventspils International Radio Astronomy Center, Irbene, Latvia | 32-meter fully steerable parabolic, centimetre-wave range antenna RT-32 |
| Northern Cross | Medicina Radio Observatory, Medicina, Bologna, Italy | 32000 m² interferometer, cylindrical-paraboloid steerable over NS., 408 MHz, Beam=3' |
| 32 m VLBI dish | Medicina Radio Observatory, Medicina, Bologna, Italy | 32 m, fully steerable dish, 1400 MHz...43 GHz |
| 32 m VLBI dish | Noto Radio Observatory, Noto, Italy, | 32 m, fully steerable dish, 300 MHz-86 GHz. Operates both as part of astronomical and geodetic VLBI network and as a single dish. |
| MERLIN (Multi-Element Radio Linked Interferometer Network) | United Kingdom | Consists of the Cambridge 32 m at Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, Darnhall, Defford, Tabley (also known as Pickmere) and Knockin. Also includes the Lovell and Mark II telescopes at Jodrell Bank. |
| TNA-400 | Center for deep space communications, Simferopol, Crimea, Ukraine | TNA-400, 32 m telescope |
| IRAM - 30m | Pico Veleta, in Granada, Spain | 30m dish operated by the Institute for Millimetric Radio Astronomy (Institut de radioastronomie millimétrique, IRAM); works in the millimeter range (1mm to 3mm) both with superheterodyne and bolometric detectors. |
| Mark II | Jodrell Bank Observatory, Cheshire, England | 25 m dish |
| Stockert | Bad Münstereifel-Eschweiler near Bonn, Germany | 25 m dish operated by University of Bonn and Max Planck Institut für Radioastronomie, closed in 1993, now owned by NRW-Stiftung, reopened 2010 after restoration and operated by Förderverein Astropeiler Stockert |
| Toruń RT3 15 m | Toruń Centre for Astronomy, Toruń, Poland | RT3 (15 m) antenna. |
| Very Small Array (VSA) | Observatorio del Teide, Canary Islands, Spain | Array of 14 dishes, with two larger source-subtraction dishes. Controlled remotely from UK. |
| Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT) | Westerbork, Netherlands | Array of 14 25-meter dishes |
| 25 m telescope | Onsala Space Observatory, Onsala, Sweden | 25 m telescope |
| Dwingeloo (CAMRAS) | Dwingeloo, Netherlands | 25 m steerable dish, formerly operated by ASTRON, now in restoration by CAMRAS |
| 22 m telescope | Simeiz Observatory, Simeiz, Crimea, Ukraine | 22-m radio telescope for mm and cm radio waves. Located at the foot of mount Koshka (Cat) in Katsiveli (near Simeiz). Belongs to the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, the Department of Radioastronomy. |
| 20 m telescope | Onsala Space Observatory, Onsala, Sweden | 20 m telescope |
| Pluton (complex) | Center for deep space communications, Evpatoria, Crimea, Ukraine | 8 mirrors with diameter of 16 meters. Square is 1000 sq. meters. |
| RT-16 | Ventspils International Radio Astronomy Center, Irbene, Latvia | 16-meter diameter antenna RT-16 http://www.virac.lv/ |
| Metsähovi Radio Observatory | Kylmälä, Kirkkonummi, Finland | 13.7 m dish, operates at 2 to 150 GHz, surface accuracy 0.1 mm (rms). |
| Ryle Telescope | Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, Cambridge, England | Eight 13 m dishes, and is currently used as one part of the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager. |
| RT-7.5 (Bauman's radio telescope) | Moscow Oblast, Russia | Two 7.75-meter diameter antennas (only one is working at the moment) Remote access computer-aided laboratory |
| Wurzburg v2.0 LAB/OASU (Bordeaux Observatory radio telescope) | Floirac, Gironde, France | 7.5 meter diameter antenna. Observable frequency range : 1.4-1.7GHz. Bandwidth ~9.2MHz Wurzburg v2.0 Remote access - Web Interface |
| Distributed across Europe with members in China, South Africa and the USA | VLBI array operated by the European Consortium for VLBI | |
| Plateau de Bure Interferometer | Plateau de Bure, Grenoble, France | Originally an array of 3 antennas, since 2005 has 6 antennas, operating at millimeter wavelengths. |
| Nançay Radio Telescope (NRT) | Nançay, France | |
| ALLBIN (Amateur Linked Long Baseline Interferometer Network) | Germany | A Small Network of Radio Telescopes and Radio Spectrographs doing Amateur Radio Astronomy at a Very High standard coordinated by The European Radio Astronomy Club Research and Development Telescope in Mannheim Germany. |
| LOFAR (LOw Frequency ARray) | Netherlands, Germany, Great Britain, France, Sweden; in future possibly Poland and other countries | Low frequency array of dipole antennas at 1.25 to 30m wavelengths (10-240 MHz), with a strongly distributed signal processing system. The telescope beam is constructed in software from combinations of antenna signals. |
| Arcminute Microkelvin Imager | Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, Cambridge, England | Small Array consists of 10 3.7-m parabolic antennas |
| The European Radio Astronomy Club Telescope and Development Facility (ERAC Telescope) | Mannheim, Germany | From 14KHzVLF up to 40 GHz |
| ERAC Phased Array | The European Radio Astronomy Club, Elsass, France | Phased array and Digital back end based on the SKA design |
| ERAC Phased Array | The European Radio Astronomy Club, East Lothian, Scotland | Phased array and Digital back end based on the SKA design |
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