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Nançay Radio Telescope

 

Nançay Radio Telescope

The Nançay Decimetric Radio Telescope (official abbreviation NRT) is located in the small town of Nançay, two hours' drive south of Paris, France. The radio telescope is a transit instrument of an unusual design where the flat primary directs energy towards the spherical secondary which focuses it towards a mobile focal carriage. The primary tilts North-South to select any object near the meridian, while the focal carriage moves East-West along railroad ties to track objects for roughly an hour within transit.

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