85 Foot Howard E. Tatel Telescope, 1962

The Howard E. Tatel Radio Telescope, built in 1958, was the first major radio telescope at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Green Bank, WV. It is also known as 85-1, the first of three 85-foot telescopes of similar design built at NRAO. Built by the Blaw-Knox Corp. of Pittsburgh, Pa., it began regular observations in February 1959 and did much of the pioneering radio astronomy at NRAO. In 1964 when the NRAO decided to build an interferometer, the Tatel Telescope became the fixed element in the NRAO 3-element interferometer system.

Records of the NRAO

NRAO/AUI/NSF

Still Image

85foot_hi.jpg

B&W negative

1962

NRAO/AUI/NSF

GB62-00947

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Photographs Series

85 foot Howard E. Tatel Telescope Unit