English: Part of the Northern Cross Radio Telescope at the
Medicina Radio Observatory located 30 km from Bologna, Italy. It is a fixed cylindrical parabolic antenna receiving around 408 MHz. A wire screen
(not visible) supported by the fence-like structure
(left) serves as a cylindrical
parabolic reflector which focuses the incoming radio waves onto the line of
dipole
feed antennas (left). The reflector can be tilted to point the telescope to different locations in the sky along the local
celestial meridian, but is fixed in azimuth. With a surface area of 27400 square meters it is the largest UHF band antenna in the Northern Hemisphere.
Photo Report: Medicine, 1974 / Paolo Monti. - Strips: 7, total frames: 35: Negative B / W, gelatin silver bromide / film; 35 mm. - ((On the negative carrier: N [I] K [MA] T PanF. - Occasion: Publication. - Source: Paul Monti Agenda: Leica 1501-3000 numbering Control (1950-1978), at Archive Paolo Monti. - Source: monograph by University [Bologna studies]: historic settlement Review: catalog raisonné of university building projects in urban annotated report, Bologna, Tip. Labati and Nanni (1974). - source: Paul Monti Invoice: IV. construction Contracts / Invoice n. 16 (09.17.1974), at Archive Paolo Monti