Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope
The Cerro Chajnantor Atacama Telescope is a proposed 25-metre-diameter telescope that is intended to reveal the cosmic origins of stars, planets, and galaxies with its submillimeter cameras and spectrometers enabled by superconducting detector arrays.- Email: contact@ccatobservatory.org
- Type: Construction
- Description: proposed radio telescope in Antofagasta Region, Chile
- Also known as: “Cerro Chajnantor Atacama Telescope”, “Cerro Chajnantor Atacama Telescope (CCAT)”, and “Cornell Caltech Atacama Telescope”
- Address: km. 57 Ruta 27, San Pedro de Atacama
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include University of Tokyo Atacama Observatory (TAO).
University of Tokyo Atacama Observatory (TAO)
Observatory
The University of Tokyo Atacama Observatory is an astronomical observatory located on the summit of Cerro Chajnantor, at an altitude of 5,640 m within a lava dome in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. University of Tokyo Atacama Observatory (TAO) is situated 190 metres west of Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Atacama Large Millimeter Array.
Atacama Large Millimeter Array
Hamlet
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array is an astronomical interferometer of 66 radio telescopes in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile, which observe electromagnetic radiation at millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths. Atacama Large Millimeter Array is situated 4½ km south of Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope.
Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope
- Category: radio telescope
- Location: Antofagasta, Chile, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-22.98547° or 22° 59′ 8″ south
Longitude
-67.74047° or 67° 44′ 26″ west
Elevation
5,612 metres (18,412 feet)
Operator
Cornell University Space Sciences & Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik
Open location code
579J2775+RR
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Spanish—“Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تلسكوب فريد يونغ دون المليمتر”
- Catalan: “Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope”
- Catalan: “Telescopi Cerro Chajnantor Atacama”
- Chinese: “查南托山阿塔卡馬望遠鏡”
- Dutch: “Cerro Chajnantor Atacama Telescope”
- German: “Cerro Chajnantor Atacama Telescope”
- German: “Cornell Caltech Atacama Telescope”
- German: “Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope”
- Italian: “Cerro Chajnantor Atacama Telescope”
- Korean: “CCAT”
- Spanish: “Cerro Chajnantor Atacama Telescope”
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