An Australian radio observatory in New South Wales, home since 1961 to a 64-meter steerable dish nicknamed "The Dish," which received live television transmissions of the 1969 Apollo 11 Moon landing for broadcast around the world. It remains one of the most productive radio telescopes in the Southern Hemisphere, particularly for pulsar surveys.
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Observatory TypeRadio astronomy observatory 2 Location20 km north of Parkes, New South Wales, Australia 2 MeasuresRadio waves via the 64-metre movable dish telescope 2 Operating PrincipleAltazimuth mount steerable dish, guided by an equatorially mounted mock-telescope 2 Classification
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Lead section, opening sentence
Parkes Observatory is a radio astronomy observatory
Lead section, location sentence
located 20 kilometres (12 mi) north of the town of Parkes, New South Wales, Australia
Design and construction section, completion date
completed in 1961
Radio telescope section, primary instrument sentence
The primary observing instrument is the 64-metre (210 ft) movable dish telescope
Hardware section, mount description
The telescope has an altazimuth mount. It is guided by a small mock-telescope placed within the structure at the same rotational axes as the dish, but with an equatorial mount
Parkes Observatory, Wikipedia - lead section, observing band (radio)
Parkes Observatory is a radio astronomy observatory, located 20 kilometres (12 mi) north of the town of Parkes, New South Wales, Australia.
In Group: Radio and Millimetre Interferometer Arrays, Lead sentence
The 64 m dish was one of several radio antennas used to receive live television images of the Apollo 11 Moon landing.
Operated By: CSIRO, Article text: operator
The Parkes Observatory is run by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), as part of the Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF) network of radio telescopes.
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