Parkes Radio Telescope

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If you've ever seen the movie The Dish, this is That Dish.


It is a 64m radio telecope commissioned in March 1961.





The Visitor's Centre. This contains displays, real-time feeds from the control room, and the actual 1969 control panel as used during the Apollo landings, which was rebuilt and used in the movie.


The view from Table 7, The Dich Cafe. Fresh coffee, home made meat pies, and a 64m dish looking at binary pulsars.




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[dizzdvl.livejournal.com]

The Dish!! I love that movie. I must write that down as a movie to get on DVD.

[oceansedge.livejournal.com]

*grins* very cool... they use that exact view coming up the road in the opening to the movie.... very cool indeed :)

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[hopeforyou.livejournal.com]

THANK YOU!!! =)

Hope to visit dish next time... and maybe I can get an employee discount. *ggls*