heaven eye telescope

By Xah Lee. Date: 2019-01-01.

china fast radio telescope-s — Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST). In China. 2684×2012 [Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope][ http://maps.google.com/maps?q=25.6525%2C106.8567 ]

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST; Chinese: 五百米口径球面射电望远镜), nicknamed Tianyan (天眼, lit. “Heavenly Eye” or “The Eye of Heaven”) is a radio telescope located in the Dawodang depression (大窝凼洼地), a natural basin in Pingtang County, Guizhou Province, southwest China.[1] It consists of a fixed 500 m (1,600 ft) diameter dish constructed in a natural depression in the landscape. It is the world's largest filled-aperture radio telescope,[2] and the second-largest single-dish aperture after the sparsely-filled RATAN-600 in Russia.[3][4]