Observations
The ORT has produced results on radio galaxies, quasars, supernovae and pulsars, One long-term program determined the angular structure of several hundred distant radio galaxies and quasars using the lunar occultation method.
The application of this database to observational cosmology provided independent evidence against the Steady State theory and supported the Big Bang model of the universe.
The telescope is currently being used mainly to observee interplanetary scintillation, which may provide valuable information about the solar wind and magnetic storms that affect the near - earth environment. Interplanetary scintillation observations provide a database to understand space weather changes and their predictability.
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