Small Radio Telescope

Satellite dish radio telescope viewed through window
Ah, daytime astronomy.

At the Observatory, we have a well-loved Small Radio Telescope, an older version of the one available from MIT’s Haystack Observatory. It’s an educational tool, suitable for undergraduates, which offers one charming advantage over our other, visual telescopes:

You can operate it comfortably from the climate-controlled building interior, conducting your radio observations in almost any weather.