Movies

Below you can find movies about ASTRON, the Dwingeloo radio telescope, the Westerbork telescope, LOFAR, the Square Kilometre Array and other projects.

The videos below may not be used for any commercial purpose. Copyright belongs to ASTRON, unless otherwise stated.

Do you have a specific question about videos or would you like to use a video or parts of it? Please contact Femke Boekhorst (PR & Communication) at boekhorst [at] astron [dot] nl or at (+31)(0) 521 595 204. ASTRON can provide you with original material for some of the films.

Take a look at our YouTube pages as well.

ASTRON	The building of the Dwingeloo Telescope Movie about radio astronomy, ASTRON and JIVE (NL and Eng) (2005) The restoration of the Dwingeloo telescope: Lifting the dish of the tower in order to restore the telescope (2012)
Westerbork telescope	The Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (NL) (© 2001 Peter Prys) The Westerbork telescope in aerial view (© ASTRON) Animated telescopes (© ASTRON) Trailer of the Westerbork telescope in "Around the World in 80 Telescopes during 100 hours of Astronomy" (© ASTRON, 2009: International Year of Astronomy)
LOFAR telescope A sensor network for radio astronomy at low frequencies	LOFAR film, short version (11 minutes): What is LOFAR! (Eng) (© ASTRON and Blue Media, 2010). Also available in Dutch. LOFAR film, long version (50 minutes) Building LOFAR (© ASTRON and Blue Media, 2011). Also available in Dutch. LOFAR animation (4 minutes): Building LOFAR (© ASTRON and Blue Media, 2012). Alsoavailable in Dutch. LOFAR in "Around the World in 80 Telescopes during 100 hours of Astronomy" (© ASTRON, 2009: International Year of Astronomy)
Square Kilometre Array Exploring the universe with the world's largest radio telescope	SKA animation (with voice over © Swinburne Astronomy Productions) SKA animation (without voice over, (© Swinburne Astronomy Productions) SKA project (NL) (© 2001 Peter Prys) SKA Science animation 2010: .mp4 (144 MB) (© Swinburne Astronomy Productions) SKA Science animation 2010: .avi (75 MB) (© Swinburne Astronomy Productions) ASTRON design for the SKA: EMMA (Embrace Multiple for Astronomy, 2012).
Astronomy	What is astronomy? (NL) (© 2001 Peter Prys)
Other projects	MIDI project (NL) (© 2001 Peter Prys) VISIR project (NL) (© 2001 Peter Prys) The making of Embrace (© ASTRON and Rolf Muggen, 2010) METIS is the Mid Infrared E-ELT Imager and Spectrograph and is the only instrument on the European Extremely Large Telescope that processes light on wavelengths between 3 and 15 micrometre. OPTIMOS-EVE is the OPtical Infrared Multi Object Spectrograph for the European Extremely Large Telescope called the Extreme Visual Explorer. OPTIMOS-EVE can measure spectra of hundreds of objects at the same time at visual wavelengths and in the near infrared.

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