Tours around Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory
at Lord's Bridge

The astrophysics group at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, offered tours around the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory (MRAO) at Lord's Bridge. Situated a few miles west of Cambridge, MRAO is home to more than half a dozen radio telescopes, many of which have played key roles in important discoveries in astrophysics over the last few decades. The observatory remains central to research activities of the Cavendish Astrophysics group, in particular to studies of the Cosmic Microwave Background and high-resolution optical imaging.

Tours lasted about 2 hours and included an introduction to AMI - an exciting new telescope currently under construction which will be used to image secondary anisotropies in the microwave background.

Tours ran at the following times:

• Mon 25 Aug 2003 : 16:30
• Wed 27 Aug 2003 : 18:00
• Fri 29 Aug 2003 : 18:00

Further details on MRAO may be found on the MRAO website

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