Huan Tran Telescope (James Ax observatory)

Huan Tran Telescope (James Ax observatory) is a building in , , . Huan Tran Telescope (James Ax observatory) is situated nearby to the building , as well as near .

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Atacama Cosmology Telescope and Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor.

Building
Photo: Ahincks, CC BY 3.0.
The was a cosmological millimeter-wave telescope located on in the in the north of . ACT made high-sensitivity, arcminute resolution, microwave-wavelength surveys of the sky in order to study the cosmic microwave background radiation, the relic radiation left by the Big Bang process. is situated 160 metres west of Huan Tran Telescope (James Ax observatory).

Building
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The is an array of microwave telescopes which has been observing since 2016 from a high-altitude site in the of as part of the Parque Astronómico de Atacama. is situated 160 metres southwest of Huan Tran Telescope (James Ax observatory).

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The Simons Observatory is located in the high in Northern inside the Chajnator Science Preserve, at an altitude of 5,200 meters. The and the were located nearby but these instruments have now been replaced by the current telescopes of the Simons Observatory. is situated 290 metres southwest of Huan Tran Telescope (James Ax observatory).

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Atacama Large Millimeter Array.

Hamlet
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The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array is an astronomical interferometer of 66 radio telescopes in the of northern , which observe electromagnetic radiation at millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths. is situated 8 km southeast of Huan Tran Telescope (James Ax observatory).

Huan Tran Telescope (James Ax observatory)

Latitude
-22.9586° or 22° 57′ 31″ south
Longitude
-67.7862° or 67° 47′ 10″ west
Open location code
579J26R7+HG
Open­Street­Map ID
way 416322679
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Open­Street­Map feature
man_made=­telescope
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