<p>Lorenzo Raynard, spokesperson for SKA Africa was gracious enough to send me the map with the sixteen sites below, and I've duplicated the dots on a larger format map.</p>

<p>It's been quite a while, probably the array has grown since this "first-light" image.</p>

<p>Next step (strictly for fun) will be to try to make a <a href="https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/q/26413/7982">UV map</a> for this configuration.</p>

<p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/W4FGQ.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/W4FGQ.png" alt="enter image description here"></a> </p>

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<p>The final configuration of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeerKAT" rel="nofollow noreferrer">MeerKAT radio array</a> will be 64 dishes. In the <a href="http://www.ska.ac.za/releases/20160716.php" rel="nofollow noreferrer">press release of July 16, 2016</a> a radio image is shown using a completed sub-set of 16 dishes.</p>

<p>Which 16 are these? I can find documents on-line with coordinates for 64 location, (sometimes numbered 1 through 64, <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/0910.2935.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">but not here</a>), but I can't figure out which 16 are used to produce this image.</p>

<p>I found images of KAT-7 and MeerKAT in google maps - maybe someday we can get daily ground truth updates from <a href="https://www.planet.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Planet Labs</a>, but for right now I'll stick to stackexchange.</p>

<p>Image <a href="http://www.ska.ac.za/releases/20160716.php" rel="nofollow noreferrer">from the press release</a>:</p>

<p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/UVYyk.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/UVYyk.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>

<p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/l9OXm.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/l9OXm.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>

<p><strong>Above:</strong> MeerKAT <em>array core</em> from Google Maps at (30.7136109S, 21.4399576E). The remaining sites are farther away and can be seen if one zooms out.</p>

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<p><strong>Above:</strong> KAT-7 array from Google Maps at (30.7217011S, 21.4070518E)</p>

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Which 16 antenna locations were used this MeerKAT radio image?
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# Which 16 antenna locations were used this MeerKAT radio image?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2016-07-18)

The final configuration of the [MeerKAT radio array](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeerKAT) will be 64 dishes. In the [press release of July 16, 2016](http://www.ska.ac.za/releases/20160716.php) a radio image is shown using a completed sub-set of 16 dishes.

Which 16 are these? I can find documents on-line with coordinates for 64 location, (sometimes numbered 1 through 64, [but not here](https://arxiv.org/pdf/0910.2935.pdf)), but I can't figure out which 16 are used to produce this image.

I found images of KAT-7 and MeerKAT in google maps - maybe someday we can get daily ground truth updates from [Planet Labs](https://www.planet.com/), but for right now I'll stick to stackexchange.

Image [from the press release](http://www.ska.ac.za/releases/20160716.php):

[![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/UVYyk.jpg)](https://i.sstatic.net/UVYyk.jpg)

[![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/l9OXm.jpg)](https://i.sstatic.net/l9OXm.jpg)

**Above:** MeerKAT *array core* from Google Maps at (30.7136109S, 21.4399576E). The remaining sites are farther away and can be seen if one zooms out.

[![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/xs0Rd.jpg)](https://i.sstatic.net/xs0Rd.jpg)

**Above:** KAT-7 array from Google Maps at (30.7217011S, 21.4070518E)

**Tags:** radio-astronomy, radio-telescope

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_0 on 2019-01-07. Score: 1 | Accepted answer

Lorenzo Raynard, spokesperson for SKA Africa was gracious enough to send me the map with the sixteen sites below, and I've duplicated the dots on a larger format map.

It's been quite a while, probably the array has grown since this "first-light" image.

Next step (strictly for fun) will be to try to make a [UV map](https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/q/26413/7982) for this configuration.

[![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/W4FGQ.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/W4FGQ.png)

[![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/0Gv1F.jpg)](https://i.sstatic.net/0Gv1F.jpg)


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