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C-BASS dish installed at MeerKAT support base

The South African SKA Project, together with the Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory and Rhodes University is collaborating with Caltech, Oxford University and Manchester University on the C-BASS (C-Band All Sky Survey) project. Two antennas will be used in this experiment: one at the Owens Valley Observatory in California, and one 7.6 m antenna at the Klerefontein support base of the South African MeerKAT telescope. The C-BASS project is intended to undertake an all-sky, total power and linear polarisation measurement to obtain a precise map, in the C-Band, of the Stokes parameters of the Galaxy.

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C-BASS dish being lifted into position
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Completed C-BASS antenna with control and instrumentation container in front