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About HartRAO

• Here is a quick look at what the observatory does.
  
• 'n Vinnige kykie na wat ons hier by HartRAO doen.
  
• Bona ka boripana se se dirwang mo HartRAO.

HartRAO News

• News about HartRAO - 2017/03/06 - Russian satellite laser and radio ranging system «SAZHEN-TM+OWS» has officially been inaugurated in South Africa

HartRAO Research Programmes

• Radio Astronomy Programme
  • HartRAO single-dish observing proposals
  • 26m Telescope - Astronomical Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI)
  • 26m Telescope - Continuum Radiometry
  • 26m Telescope - Pulsar Timing
  • 26m Telescope - Spectroscopy
  • 26m Telescope - Webcam
  • 26m Telescope - Control Computer System
  • 26m Telescope - Technical details
  • 26m Telescope - Surface upgrade 1998 - 2005
  • 15m Telescope - built as eXperimental Development Model (XDM) for KAT
  • 15m Telescope - Webcam
  • 15m Telescope - Technical details
  • HartRAO Local Sidereal Time clock
  • The Square Kilometer Array (SKA) and the Karoo Array Telescope (KAT) Projects
  • 7.5m C-BASS - C-band All Sky Survey Southern Telescope
  • Practicals, projects and courses in Radio Astronomy for university students
• Space Geodesy Programme
  • Geodetic VLBI, Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR) and the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)
  • Inkaba yeAfrica German / South Africa Earth Sciences project
  • Coordinates of geodetic instruments at HartRAO
  • Geophysical data displays - station velocities, water vapour, ionosphere, tide gauge etc.
  • VGOS Telescope - Webcam
  • Allsky Camera

Training

• Training site for the African VLBI Network (AVN) partners

HartRAO Science Awareness Outreach Programme

• About the Science Awareness Programme
• Pamphlet set download
• Public visits - are held once a month on a Saturday afternoon
• School and Group visits - to our Visitors Centre
• Workshops for Educators - on astronomy- and space-related topics in the school curriculum

HartRAO Staff Vacancies and Bursary opportunities

• Vacancies (NRF-wide)

HartRAO Bids and Tenders

HartRAO General Information

• How to get to HartRAO - maps, directions and information about the area
• Image Gallery - HartRAO in pictures
• Before HartRAO - the early days as NASA Deep Space Instrumentation Facility 51 (DSIF 51), later Deep Space Station 51 (DSS-51), 1961-1974
• Facilities for visiting scientists and students at HartRAO
• Weather - current data at HartRAO
• Weather - current cloud satellite image for South Africa and more weather maps
• Who's Who - HartRAO staff

General Interest

• Places to go and things to do - visit craters and other science attractions, get free astronomy software, make a sundial, buy a telescope
• Questions - 2012? November 21 fireball? Will Mars appear as big as the Moon? Did Apollo really land on the Moon?
• Xtra links - South African astronomy, eclipses, craters, science centres, general astronomy, astronomy news, space exploration, South African National Space Agency (SANSA)...

Superbubbles	Masers	Pulsars
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