Scientific Observations
When the telescope was proposed, a series of objectives for the telescope's observations were set out. These included:
- Surveys of galactic and extragalactic radio emission
- Observations of the sun
- Radar echoes from the planets
- Investigation of meteor detections
- Observations of the Gegenschein
- Studies of the Aurora
- Detections of radio reflections from cosmic ray ionization in the atmosphere
However, the actual observations made with the telescope differ from these original objectives, and are outlined in the following sections.
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