Dwingeloo

Dwingeloo is a town halfway between Meppel and Assen. The radio telescope of the Dwingeloo Radio Observatory is located on the edge of the Dwingeloo Heath, 3 km

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south of the village.

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Meppel: is a municipality and a city in the northeast of the Netherlands....

Assen: is a municipality and a city in the north eastern Netherlands, capital of the province of Drenthe....

Dwingeloo Radio Observatory: The Dwingeloo Radio Observatory (near Dwingeloo, m. Westerveld, in the northeastern Netherlands), is a single dish radio telescope with a diameter of 25 m. Construction started in 1954, the telescope was completed in 1956. It is no longer in operation as of 2000. Since 2007, it is officially a ...