CSIRO's Parkes Radio Telescope Discovery Centre

A model of the dish moved to point at each of five pulsars in the night sky above the window, as you pushed the buttons. You then heard the sound that one makes and they are all different.

Big Dish and Perfect Pies

June 4th 2014
Got up early today and put on 2 loads of washing (they only have 2 machines) to do while I had breakfast and then hung it up. We then set off for the CSIRO’s Parkes Radio Telescope, otherwise known as “The Dish” after the movie made in 2000, in which it featured. (The movie told the slightly fictionalised story of Parkes telescope receiving pictures of the Apollo 11 first Moon landing. And n ... read more

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