📡 Nançay radio telescope

France · Europe · 47.37°N, 2.20°E

Quick facts

Country	France
Continent / region	Europe
Coordinates (approx.)	47.37°N, 2.20°E · view on map
Distance to the equator	5,273 km north of it
Solar time	UTC+0:15 — read from longitude, so it is the sky's clock rather than the government's
Sun today (UTC)	Rises 06:38, sets 16:31 — 9 h 53 min of daylight

Nançay radio telescope is located in France, in Europe.

Closest radio telescopes

EMBRACE (telescope) — 1.3 km away, in Netherlands
KOSMA — 453 km away, in Switzerland
Stockert Radio Telescope — 485 km away, in Germany
Effelsberg 100-metre Radio Telescope — 490 km away, in Germany
Interplanetary Scintillation Array — 555 km away, in United Kingdom

Straight-line distances on a sphere, computed from the coordinates. A road would be longer.

Coordinates approximate. Introduction & image: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), cached 30 days; the page renders even if the feed is momentarily unreachable.

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