The Mauritius Radio Telescope and our friend the Fourier Transform




	The Mauritius Radio Telescope is a new, low frequency and
	medium resolution telescope for the Southern hemisphere. It's
	simple construction is a throw back to the sealing wax and
	string era of physics. 

	It aims to include the lowest possible spatial frequencies,
	which are hardest to calibrate, and thus usually missing in
	interferometer maps. The absence of these complicate comparison
	with single dish instruments such as Mt. Pleasant.

	MRT is also a return to the idea of placing telescopes in nice
	places; near the beach rather than the tops of mountains. 

	Description of this telescope will be accompanied by
	description of the problems we made/had made for ourselves, and
	how Fourier analysis allowed us to correct these.