Radioteleskop Effelsberg
Bad Münstereifel
With a diameter of 100 metres, the Radio Telescope Effelsberg is one of the largest fully mobile radio telescopes on earth. Since its commissioning in 1972, the company has continuously worked on improving its technology (e. g. B. a new surface of the antenna dish, better receivers for highquality data, extremely lownoise electronics) so that even today it is still considered one of the most modern telescopes in the world. The telescope is used to observe pulsars, cold gas and dust clouds, star formation regions, matter jets emanating from black holes and the nuclei of distant galaxies. Effelsberg is an important station for the worldwide interconnection of radio telescopes. With this technique, the sharpest images of the cosmos can be taken. In order to improve this technology, the Institute is working in several projects together with national and international research institutes and other organizations
