General
Information
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The Effelsberg
100-meter Radio Telescope is one of the World's largest fully
steerable instruments. This extreme-precision antenna operates
up to a wavelength of 3 millimeters. It is used exclusively for
research
in radio astronomy, both as a stand-alone instrument and regularly for
global Very Long Baseline Interferometry  (VLBI)
experiments.
Access to the radio telescope is open to all
qualified
scientists
based on scientific peer review.
The telescope is located near Bad
Münstereifel-Effelsberg,
40 km southwest of Bonn, Germany. The precise location is: Longitude
6°53'0.3"
East and Latitude 50°31'30" North; the Altitude (track level) is
319m.
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Max-Planck-Institut
für Radioastronomie
- Radioobservatorium Effelsberg -
Max-Planck-Strasse 28
53902 Bad Münstereifel-Effelsberg
Germany
+49 (0)2257 301 100
(switchboard)
+49 (0)2257 301 + extension
+49 (0)2257 301 105
(general)
+49 (0)2257 301 106 (telescope operators)
<userid>_at_mpifr-bonn.mpg.de
<postmaster>_at_mpifr-bonn.mpg.de
Station manager: Alex
Kraus (akraus at mpifr-bonn.mpg.de)
Scheduling: Alex Kraus (akraus at mpifr-bonn.mpg.de)
Director responsible: Michael Kramer
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