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Owens Valley Radio Observatory

Owens Valley Radio Observatory is a radio astronomy located near in Owens Valley. It lies east of the Sierra Nevada, approximately 350 kilometers north of and 20 kilometers southeast of .
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  • Type: University
  • Description: observatory
  • Also known as: “OVRO”
  • Address: 100 Leighton Lane, Big Pine, 93513-0968

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Big Pine.

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is in the region of . It is one of a chain of small towns along US Route 395 in the Owens Valley along the southern Sierra Nevada.

Owens Valley Radio Observatory

Latitude
37.23373° or 37° 14′ 1″ north
Longitude
-118.28779° or 118° 17′ 16″ west
Operator
California Institute of Technology
Open location code
85936PM6+FV
Open­Street­Map ID
way 268182461
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­university
Open­Street­Map feature
man_made=­observatory
Wiki­data 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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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Owens Valley Radio Observatory”. Photo: Salvor Hardin, CC BY-SA 4.0.