Murchinson Widefield Array - Geraldton Fri 3 Aug 2012 – Sun 23 Sep 2012 9:30am – 4:00pm Museum of Geraldton Come to the WA Museum Geraldton and view one of the “tiles” from the Murchison Widefield Array. The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) is the low-frequency radio telescope precursor instrument to the Square Kilometre Array. It has been developed by an international consortium and is located near Boolardy station in Western Australia, at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO) which offers a quiet radio environment and stable climate for observations. It is an inherently versatile instrument with a wide range of potential science goals, one being the detection of neutral atomic Hydrogen emission from the cosmological Epoch of Reionization(EoR). An MWA antenna comprises four by four regular grid of dual-polarisation dipole elements arranged on a 5m x 5m steel mesh ground plane. Each antenna (with its 16 dipoles) is known as a “tile”. The majority of the tiles (112) will be scattered across a roughly 1.5 km core region, forming an array with very high imaging quality, and a field of view of several hundred square degrees at a resolution of several arcminutes. Murchison Widefield Array Getting Here Address Museum of Geraldton 2 Museum Place, Batavia Coast Marina, Geraldton, Western Australia, 6530, Australia Phone (08) 9431 8393 By Bus The Western Australian Museum — Geraldton is located within walking distance of Chapman Rd bus-stop, which is serviced by the 501 service. Visit the PTA website for timetables. By Car Parking is available onsite. Accessibility Accessibility information about the Western Australian Museum — Geraldton can be found on the Access WA website.