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    Current status of EVN observatories

    Due to the current health situation around the world some observatories have limited staff available, have reduced observing times. or closed their facilities. For an overview please indicate in the table below the status of your observatory. Thanks

     

    Station Comment
    Arecibo  
    Badary  
    Effelsberg Still regular observations, limited technical support.
    HartRAO Under lockdown as of March 26.  Remote operation continuing, but no technical support.
    Irbene  
    Jodrell & MERLIN closed since March 17, 2020.
    Kunming  
    KVN Rugular observations.
    Medicina Update 24/03. The city of Medicina completly locked down (none allowed to leave or enter) due to worrying spread of the infection. Some colleagues cannot leave their homes. The station, even if outside the restricted area, can be accessed by a very limited number of people. The telescope is still idle for the technical problem that forced us to skip the previous session. The maintenace, orginally planned for Match the 9th, was postponed to a to-be-defined date.
    Metsähovi Still regular observations, limited technical support.
    Nkutunse  
    Noto Update 24/03. At the moment, virus spread seems to be under control in Sicily. Nevertheless due to the regulations and restrictions imposed by Goverment we can have very limited number of people at the station. The telescope is still idle for the technical problem that forced us to skip the previous session. The maintenace, orginally planned for Match the 16th, was postponed to a to-be-defined date.
    Onsala

    Update 24/3: 20 m: geo-VLBI sessions done remotely from home. Single-dish stopped. Due to limited technical support not certain if/when we can prepare for the GMVA-session.

    Update 24/3: 25 m: Due to technical problems with the stow lock we will not use telescope remotely at the moment (safety). The lab may possibly fix the problem next week.

     

    Robledo  
    Sardinia  
    Svetloe  
    T6 (Shanghai)  
    Torun  
    Urumqi  
    Westerbork  
    Yebes Remote operation of scheduled observations at least until April 11th, limited technical support.
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