Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory

The National Research Council of Canada's radio astronomy observatory, located 20 kilometres (12 miles) south-west of Penticton in British Columbia. It forms part of the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics and was founded in 1959. The main instrument is an aperture synthesis radio telescope consisting of seven 9-metre (30-foot) dishes on an east-west baseline 600 metres (2,000 feet) long. There is also a 26-metre (85-foot) dish and a small solar telescope.