Pico Veleta Radio Observatory
near Granada in the Sierra Nevada, Andalucía, Southern Spain.
Operated by the Institut de RadioAstronomie Millimétrique, Grenoble.
The 30m radiotelescope is listening Granada
Light pollution near Granada is bad for optical observations
Searching for Signals of molecules in the universe
Moonlight illuminates the radiotelescope
Pointing with the radiotelescope
A long integration on one source of millimeter wavelength radiation
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Coordinates:
Altitude:
3
o
23.5' W
37
o
04.0' N
2920m
Observatory page
IRAM
View from satellite
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© all photographs
taken by
Sven Kohle and Till Credner