Warkworth 2 dish

Warkworth 2 dish

Telescope style	radio telescope
Diameter	30 m (98 ft 5 in)

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The Warkworth 30m Radio Telescope is at the Warkworth Radio Astronomical Observatory, just south of Warkworth off SH1 about 50 km north of Auckland. It is operated by the Institute for Radio Astronomy and Space Research,^[1] Auckland University of Technology. AUT was formally granted a license^[2] to operate the Warkworth 2 antenna by Telecom New Zealand in November 2010.

Technical information

It is a 30-metre Cassegrain wheel-and-track beam waveguide antenna. It was manufactured in 1983 by Nippon Electric Corp., and since then it was used by Telecom NZ for communication between New Zealand and Pacific Islands.^[3]

The whole structure and associated buildings
Closer view of dish and track/wheel assembly
Close up of dish and secondary reflector

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Radio astronomy

Concepts

Astronomical interferometer (History)
Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI)
Radio telescope (Radio window)
Astronomical radio source
Units (watt and jansky)

Radio telescopes (List)

Individual telescopes	RATAN-600 Radio Telescope (Russia) 500 m Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST, China) Arecibo Observatory (Puerto Rico, US) Caltech Submillimeter Observatory (CSO, US) Effelsberg Telescope (Germany) Large Millimeter Telescope (Mexico) Yevpatoria RT-70 (Ukraine) Galenki RT-70 (Russia) Suffa RT-70 (Uzbekistan) Green Bank Telescope (West Virginia, US) Lovell Telescope (UK) Ooty Telescope (India) UTR-2 decameter radio telescope (Ukraine) Sardinia Radio Telescope (Italy) Usuda Telescope (Japan) Qitai Radio Telescope (China) Southern Hemisphere HartRAO (South Africa) Parkes Observatory (Australia) Warkworth Radio Astronomical Observatory (NZ)

Interferometers	Allen Telescope Array (ATA, California, US) Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA, Chile) Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA, Australia) Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP, Australia) Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME, Canada) Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy (CARMA, California, US) European VLBI Network (Europe) Green Bank Interferometer (GBI, West Virginia, US) Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT, India) Korean VLBI Network (KVN, South Korea) Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR, Netherlands) MeerKAT (South Africa) Large Latin American Millimeter Array (LLAMA, Argentina/Brazil) Murchison Widefield Array (MWA, Australia) Multi-Element Radio Linked Interferometer Network (MERLIN, UK) Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope (MOST, Australia) Northern Cross Radio Telescope (Italy) Northern Extended Millimeter Array (France) One-Mile Telescope (UK) Primeval Structure Telescope (PaST, China) Square Kilometre Array (SKA, Australia, South Africa) Submillimeter Array (SMA, US) Very Large Array (VLA, New Mexico, US) Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA, US) Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT, Netherlands)

Space-based telescopes	Spektr-R (Russia) HALCA (Japan)

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Warkworth 2 dish

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