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The Erciyes University Astronomy and Space Science Observatory Applied Research Center (Шаблон:Lang-tr) (UZAYBİMER) is a radio astronomy observatory operated by the Astronomy and Space Sciences Department at Erciyes University's Faculty of Science. It is located within university's campus at Melikgazi, Kayseri in central Turkey.

Observatory's first radio telescope was a parabolic antenna of Шаблон:Convert diameter, which was donated by the Marmara Research Center (MAM) of Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK). The radio telescope, then called MRT-2, was initially purchased from the Institute of Radio Astronomy in Kharkiv, Ukraine with the financial help of UNIDO in 1996. Built to operate in the radio frequency range of 85-115 GHz, it was intended for the acquisition of carbon monoxide data in the Milky Way. In 1997, the telescope became inoperable, and the Ukrainian technicians were unavailable for its reparature. After some unsuccessful attempts to fix the radio telescope at site, it was handed over in 2000 to Erciyes University, where its rehabilitation was carried out between 2001-2002.[1][2]

The next radio telescopes were two parabolic antennas of Шаблон:Convert diameter (ERT-5), which were donated from the local branch office of Türk Telekom in 2000. They are part of a project to build an astronomical interferometer. The radio telescopes operate in the frequencies of 4.5, 11 and 20 GHz.[3] In addition, a Шаблон:Convert diameter antenna is situated at the site as well.[1]

Further radio telescopes installed at the observatory are a Шаблон:Convert antenna and a Шаблон:Convert radome, both donated by NATO SATCOM.[1][4]

Currently, the observatory operates the Шаблон:Convert single-dish Cassegrain focus radio telescope inside the radome, two optical reflecting telescopes of Шаблон:Convert and Шаблон:Convert diameter.[5]

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