Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy
Orange webs - The WSRT, an East-West array, requires 12 hours to fill the uv-plane, using Earth rotation Synthesis, and make high qulity images. That is of course great if you want sensitivity as well. However, if you want to image a large field of view you have to resort to a technique called mozaicing, where the telescope scans a large number of positions in a short time. This produces nice (raw) images ... Read more