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.Photo: Salvor Hardin, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: University
- Description: radio astronomy observatory in California, United States
- Also known as: “OVRO”
- Address: 100 Leighton Lane, Big Pine, 93513-0968
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Big Pine and Keough Hot Springs.
Big Pine
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Big Pine is in the Eastern Sierra region of California. It is one of a chain of small towns along US Route 395 in the Owens Valley along the southern Sierra Nevada.
Keough Hot Springs
Hamlet
Keough Hot Springs is located in the Owens Valley of California, about seven miles south of the city of Bishop on US Highway 395. Keough Hot Springs is situated 5 miles west of Owens Valley Radio Observatory.
Owens Valley Radio Observatory
- Categories: radio astronomy observatory, observatory, and education
- Location: Inyo County, Desert, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.23373° or 37° 14′ 1″ northLongitude
-118.28779° or 118° 17′ 16″ westOperator
California Institute of TechnologyOpen location code
85936PM6+FVOpenStreetMap ID
way 268182461OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=universityOpenStreetMap feature
man_made=observatoryWikidata ID
Q174540
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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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