Effelsberg 100-metre Radio Telescope

The Effelsberg 100-metre Radio Telescope is a radio telescope in the in , . Inaugurated in 1972, for 29 years the Effelsberg Radio Telescope was the largest fully steerable radio telescope on Earth, surpassing the Lovell Telescope in the UK.
  • Tourist attraction
  • …is also known as “Effelsberg 100-m Radio Telescope”
  • …is operated by Max Planck Institut für Radioastronomie
  • Description: radio telescope in Germany

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include St. Martin and St. Stephan.
is a church, which is situated 1 km east of Effelsberg 100-metre Radio Telescope.
is a church, which is situated 1¼ km southwest of Effelsberg 100-metre Radio Telescope.
The , is a hill, 499.9 m above sea level, in the region.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Effelsberg and Holzem.

Effelsberg 100-metre Radio Telescope

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Latitude
50.52483° or 50° 31′ 29″ north
Longitude
6.88361° or 6° 53′ 1″ east
Open location code
9F28GVFM+WC
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man_made=­telescope
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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Ukrainian—“Effelsberg 100-metre Radio Telescope” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “埃弗尔斯贝格射电望远镜”
  • Chinese: “埃弗爾斯貝格射電望遠鏡”
  • Croatian: “Effelsberg radio teleskop”
  • Croatian: “Radioteleskop Effelsberg”
  • Czech: “Effelsberg 100-m Radio Telescope”
  • Czech: “radioteleskop Effelsberg”
  • Czech: “Radioteleskop Effelsberg”
  • Dutch: “Radiotelescoop Effelsberg”
  • Esperanto: “Effelsbergo”
  • French: “Radiotelescope d’Effelsberg”
  • French: “Radiotélescope d’Effelsberg”
  • German: “Radioteleskop Effelsberg”
  • Irish: “Radaiteileascóp Effelsberg 100-m”
  • Italian: “radiotelescopio Effelsberg”
  • Italian: “Radiotelescopio Effelsberg”
  • Japanese: “エフェルスベルク電波望遠鏡”
  • Japanese: “エフェルスベルグ電波望遠鏡”
  • Lithuanian: “Efelsbergo radioteleskopas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Radioteleskop Effelsberg”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Effelsberg radioastronomiske observatorium”
  • Persian: “تلسکوپ افلزبرگ”
  • Polish: “Radioteleskop Effelsberg”
  • Romanian: “Radiotelescopul Effelsberg”
  • Russian: “Радиотелескоп Эффельсберг”
  • Russian: “Эффельсбергский радиотелескоп”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Radio-teleskop Effelsberg”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Radioteleskop Effelsberg”
  • Spanish: “Effelsberg”
  • Ukrainian: “Еффельсберзький радіотелескоп”

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