Due to Covid-19 measures, the Dwingeloo Radio Telescope will be temporarily closed to visitors. Group tours on requests are currently not possible. Online demonstrations (in Dutch) are announced here or can be viewed here again.
With the 21 cm hydrogen line from Kootwijk to Dwingeloo
This year marks the 70th anniversary since the 21 cm hydrogen…
Manuel SteinbrecherEUCARA-2021 Web Conference, April 17, 2021 – Call for Participation and for Presentations
Deadline for registration for participation: April 4, 2021. Deadline for submitting abstracts: January 25, 2021.
CC-BY 4.0 Tammo Jan DijkemaSolargraph of the telescope
This image shows a solargraph taken from July till December…
Old postcards
An amateur Dwingeloo historian sent us 24 postcards with…
Jan van MuijlwijkAmateur TV reception in the DT
For the first time ever we entered in an amateur television…
Meteors live stream August 12, 2020
Half an hour live stream demonstration on Wednesday, August 12 at 20:00 CEST. Simon Bijlsma and Frans de Jong explained and showed how you can observe meteors (the Perseids) by means of reflections from radio waves on the meteor trails.
Historical observation repeated: occultation of the Crab Nebula by the Moon
On Saturday morning, July 18, 2020, the moon passed in front of the Crab Nebula (M1) very early. Approximately every 9 years such an occultation is visible from the Netherlands. In November 1955 this was the very first observation with the Dwingeloo Radio Telescope. Paul Boven and Hans van der Meer performed this historical observation again with the radio telescope.
Comet C / 2020 F3 (NEOWISE) above the radio telescope
Comet C / 2020 F3 (NEOWISE) is still beautiful in the…
