Coolness Page: Astronomy: Parkes Observatory

This page is about one of the most impressive Radio Telescope
Observatories in the world, the largest in the southern hemisphere,
which is used in the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence...

see also the Coolness Pages about the VLA in New Mexico,
about the Arecibo observatory in Puerto Rico,
about the Jodrell Bank observatory in England and about Seti...
or go back to the Coolness Page...

the Parkes radio telescope

The Parkes radio telescope, the biggest in the southern hemisphere,
has a dish of 64 meters in diameter and weighs 1000 tons.
It is situated near Alectown, 25 kilometres north of the town of Parkes,
New South Wales, Australia, which is approximately 380 kilometres west of Sydney.
It is 6 kilometres off the Newell Highway, the main road from Parkes to Dubbo.
Latitude = 32° 59' 59.866" north, longitude = 148° 15' 44.359" east, elevation = 392 m.

Enjoy some pictures from the Parkes radio telescope...

More information on the Parkes Observatory home page
and the SETI Australia centre

see also the Coolness Pages about the VLA in New Mexico,
about the Arecibo observatory in Puerto Rico,
about the Jodrell Bank observatory in England and about Seti...
or go back to the Coolness Page...