Svenstol at Europe's largest radio telescope

With a diameter of 100 metres, the telescope is still the largest fully mobile radio telescope in Europe today, more than 50 years after its commissioning. The telescope's parabolic mirror can be rotated 360 degrees in just under fifteen minutes and tilted by almost 90 degrees in around five minutes. This means that the entire sky above the horizon can be observed with the telescope.

The telescope is operated 24 hours a day, all year round. The control centre was recently equipped with Svenstol 24-hour chairs.