Nice Animations about Building LOFAR

Some nice animations about how LOFAR works and building LOFAR in the below movie (in Dutch). The English caption for the movie reads

A short animation consisting of all animations we have made for the 'Building LOFAR' documentary. The animations show how this new and innovative telescope works and waht is is capable off. The voice-over is Dutch in this case. English is also available and will be uploaded seperately as soon as possible. For more info and detals please visit bluemedia.nl

LOFAR-UK Pencast about the LBA

A pencast explaining the LOFAR Low Band Antennas.

LOFAR LBA Pencast
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How Does LOFAR Work (Parts 10 and 11) from the KAIRA blog

We're getting a bit behind in the series, but here are the next two installments from the KAIRA blog about how LOFAR works:

Part 10 : Multi-beam operations (explaining one of the techniques used in the press release about the first peer reviewed science results from LOFAR).

Part 11 : Ambiguities (about phase errors)

How does LOFAR Work Parts 8 and 9 (from the KAIRA blog)

Parts 8 and 9 of the series from the KAIRA blog on how LOFAR works, covering how the array is pointed as specific places on the sky:

8: Steering a Phased Array
9: Digital Beam Steering. 

How does LOFAR Work Part 7 (from the KAIRA blog)

Part 7 of the series from the KAIRA blog on how LOFAR works:

Phased Arrays.

How does LOFAR Work Part 6 (from the KAIRA blog)

And they've been busy over at KAIRA, here's also Part 6 in the series in how LOFAR works. Seems this is the end of the preamble, the real details will start soon.

Squinted Vision (about the need to steer radio dishes).

How does LOFAR Work Part 5 (from the KAIRA blog)

The next installment in how LOFAR works from KAIRA - a reminder about how traditional radio astronomy dishes work.

The Parabolic Dish.

How Does LOFAR Work Part 4 (from the KAIRA blog)

Part 4 of the KAIRA blog series on how LOFAR works: 


From radio waves to electrical signals

How Does LOFAR work Part 3 (from KAIRA blog).

The third installment in the series on how LOFAR works from the KAIRA (LOFAR-Finland) blog.

Part 3 : Start with the radio waves

How Does LOFAR Work Part 2 (from the KAIRA blog)

The next post in the series from KAIRA on how LOFAR works: "What is a LOFAR system?".

How Does LOFAR Work? (from the KAIRA blog)

Over at the KAIRA blog, they're posting a series of articles on how LOFAR works. We'll be linking them all from here.

Here's the first: "Part 1 : Introduction"