What would be the most-optimal location for the Lunar Radiotelescope?

In a story of mine mankind has established a permanent base on the earthward-side of the Moon complete with a beanstalk dangling into Earth-Luna-L1 for easy transport of material off Luna.

Getting off earth is simply a task of getting into LEO at which point craft from Luna take over crew and materials. Returning things to earth is a simple task of slowing containers/ships down sufficiently so they reenter orbit.

After finishing the moon-side constructions for the beanstalk (digging and building foundations, etc...), the construction equipment and teams haven been relocated to start building the Lunar-Radiotelescope (LunaR) similar to the ARECIBO or the FAST.

It can be assumed that active preparations and planning for this massive Lunar-Infrastructure-Project (LIP for short) have been going on for as far back as ~2022.

Considering the limiting factor for this operation being the materials and things that will have to be built on earth and moved up to moon:

What would be the best location to build such a telescope on moon?

Bonus: How long would it approximately take?

The question is asking for a location, not just a vague idea. E.g. the name of a lunar crater or lunar coordinates

posted almost 8 years ago

dot_Sp0T‭

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