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Enquiries: NRC DRAO
Phone: 250-497-2300
Fax: 250-497-2355
Email: HIA-WWW@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca
717 White Lake Road,
PO Box 248
Penticton,
British Columbia,
V2A 6J9
Canada
Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory: Visiting the Observatory
Self-guided tours
The Observatory grounds and Visitors' Centre are open year-round for self-guided tours between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday to Friday (except statutory holidays).
The grounds are also open on weekends and holidays from Easter until Thanksgiving, between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m., with staff on duty in the Visitors' Centre.
Guided tours
Tours led by Observatory staff are offered on Sundays in July and August, between 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. These tours typically last about one hour.
Parking while visiting DRAO
We ask that all visitors please park at the gate and walk in (a distance of 600 metres), as vehicle electrical and electronic systems can interfere with the astronomers' observations.
Printable Posters
A series of posters from DRAO is available for download:
- 26-m Telescope in the Snow (PDF version, 409 KB)
- DRAO 26-m Telescope (PDF version, 974 KB)
- DRAO Synthesis Telescope (PDF version, 1 301 KB)
- Hydrogen Gas in the DRAO Deep Field (PDF version, 298 KB)
- IC342 - A Celestial Pinwheel (PDF version, 918 KB)
- J=3-2 transition of the Carbon Monoxide molecule in the Rosette Nebula (PDF version, 382 KB)
- Magnetic Milky Way (PDF version, 1 310 KB)
- Radio Telescope at Work (PDF version, 1 085 KB)
- Radio View of Cassiopeia (PDF version, 654 KB)
- Recycling on a Galactic Scale (PDF version, 821 KB)
- Supernova Remnant G85.4+0.4 (PDF version, 903 KB)
- The Dark Arc - A Shadow in the Outer Galaxy (PDF version, 1 446 KB)
- Two Views of the Outer Galaxy (PDF, 857 KB)
