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Steve & Dorothy Darden  > Year 2009 > Tasmania > Grote Reber Museum and Radio Telescope
On February 11 we arranged, for ourselves and eleven of our friends, a private tour of the radio telescope and Grote Reber Musem that is located just 25 km from Hobart. The 26 metre radio telescope dish was donated by NASA to the University of Tasmania early in the 1980's, when NASA rationalized their worldwide operations.
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Steve & Dorothy Darden > Entrance to the museum
Steve & Dorothy Darden > Grote came to Tasmania in the late 1950's because of our unique location at high magnetic latitude in the Southern Hemisphere.
Steve & Dorothy Darden > Over view of the radio teleseope on Mt. Pleasant, near Hobart.
Steve & Dorothy Darden > Model of an early radio telescope constructed by Grote Reber.
Steve & Dorothy Darden > Steve thinks it's a pretty cool museum.
Steve & Dorothy Darden > Grote tinkered with electric cars and bicycles, and lived in a solar heated house of his own design.
Steve & Dorothy Darden > Electric car, "Pixie", designed and built by Grote Reber
Steve & Dorothy Darden > A smaller radio telescope is located behind the museum.
Steve & Dorothy Darden > Our tour guide, Warren, explained the reason the telescope pointed in a different direction every fifteen minutes while we watched.
Entrance to the museum
 > Entrance to the museum
Entrance to the museum
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