Yet the disruption is also noticeable here. To draw attention to this, the Dwingeloo Telescope opens its doors during the Night of the Night. Visitors are welcome to take a look, as long as the phone is turned off. Dijkema: “People can walk by here and look in one of these binoculars at our moon, the moons of Jupiter or the rings of Saturn. The radio telescope is also open, but you need to make a reservation because it is small.”
“This is the control room, here we have all kinds of devices to receive the signals and computers to look at the signals,” Dijkema points out. “Yes, I hear a beep, a tap. You can see those taps appearing here now, that’s what we do it all for. Look what a beautiful, regular signal that is. These are taps from the space of a star three thousand light years away They are very weak signals, but because this is a large dish we can still receive them.”
The telescope may be sensitive to space signals, but haste is still required for astronomical research. “The technology is getting better and better, we now measure signals that we could not measure fifty years ago,” says Dijkema. “But fifty years ago it was much quieter here because there were no mobile phones. If we could have measured fifty years ago with today’s technology, that would have been fantastic. Before the entire spectrum is polluted, we must do all astronomy have done.”
During the Night of the Night, attention is paid to the dark at various locations. On this website you can see what there is to do in Drenthe.
2023-10-21 14:01:21
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