Owens Valley Radio Observatory
Owens Valley Radio Observatory is a radio astronomy observatory located near Big Pine, California in Owens Valley. It lies east of the Sierra Nevada, approximately 350 kilometers north of Los Angeles and 20 kilometers southeast of Bishop.- Radio observatory
- …lies at an elevation of 3,960 feet (1,207 metres)
- …is also known as “OVRO”
- Description: radio astronomy observatory in California, United States
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Big Pine and Keough Hot Springs.
Keough Hot Springs
Hamlet
Keough Hot Springs is located in the Owens Valley… Keough Hot Springs is situated 5 miles west of Owens Valley Radio Observatory.
Owens Valley Radio Observatory
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Latitude
37.23326° or 37° 13′ 60″ north
Longitude
-118.28371° or 118° 17′ 1″ west
Open location code
85936PM8+8G
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Turkish—“Owens Valley Radio Observatory” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “欧文斯谷射电天文台”
- Chinese: “歐文斯谷射電天文臺”
- Chinese: “歐文斯谷電波天文台”
- Chinese: “歐文斯谷電波天文臺”
- Dutch: “Owens Valley Radio Observatory”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مرصد راديو اوينز فالى”
- French: “Owens Valley Radio Observatory”
- German: “Owens Valley Radio Observatory”
- Hebrew: “מצפה רדיו של עמק אוונס”
- Japanese: “オーウェンズヴァレー電波天文台”
- Japanese: “オーエンスバレー電波天文台”
- Japanese: “オーエンズバレー電波望遠鏡”
- Luxembourgish: “Owens Valley Radio Observatory”
- Polish: “Owens Valley Radio Observatory”
- Slovak: “Owens Valley Radio Observatory”
- Slovenian: “OVRO”
- Slovenian: “Owens Valley Radio Observatory”
- Slovenian: “Radijski observatorij v Owensovi dolini”
- Turkish: “Owens Vadisi Radyo Gözlemevi”
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