CALTECH - OVRO  

I was one of the two Receiver Systems Engineers for the Caltech-OVRO facility and the world's

most powerful submillimeter, VLBI (Very Long Baseline Interferometry) system called CARMA.

All these pictures were taken by a phone camera.

Entrance to  OVRO. 

Radio telescope at low altitude angle. Why is there a low altitude angle ?  Think !   (answer at the bottom)

the radio telescopes.  

office.

Largest steerable radio telescope in the world (on a winter morning).

H-Maser built by NASA keeps timing for the interferometer with an accuracy of 1 part in 10000000000000000.

Pacific Ocean from California, Highway 1 that runs from Los Angeles to San Fransisco along the shore.

Once again....Pacific Ocean from California, Highway 1 that runs from Los Angeles to San Fransisco along the shore.

Western Sierra mountains in California (not Nevada)

Answer :  The radio telescope in the picture is taking data from the Sun.