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The site is located at Lord's Bridge , Cambridgeshire on a former ordnance storage facility, next to the now-abandoned Cambridge-Bedford railway line. A portion of the track bed of the old line, running nearly East-West for several miles, was used to form the main part of the '5km' radio-telescope and the Cambridge Low Frequency Synthesis Telescope .


Telescopes at the observatory









































TelescopeYear builtStatus
Arcminute Microkelvin Imager short baseline array 2004 24 hour operation
Very Small Array (moved to Tenerife in 1999 ) 1998 24 hour operation
Cosmic Anisotropy Telescope made first high-resolution maps of Cosmic Microwave Background fluctuations 1995 Decomissioned
Cambridge Optical Aperture Synthesis Telescope (COAST) first Aperture Synthesis at Optical wavelengths 1993 Operated on clear nights
One receiver from the MERLIN array 1990 24 hour operation
Cambridge Low Frequency Synthesis Telescope (CLFST) 1980 24 hour operation
Ryle Telescope (formerly 5 Kilometre Telescope, also known as the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager long baseline array) 1971 24 hour operation
Half-Mile Telescope 1968 Decomissioned
Interplanetary Scintillation Array discovered first pulsar 1967 Essentially retired
One-Mile Telescope 1964 Decomissioned except for one dish used by undergraduates and amateur astronomers
4C Array , first telescope at the Cambridge's new observatory, made the 4C catalogue 1958 Decomissioned



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