Inside The Dish - Parkes CSIRO Radio Telescope tour
A behind the scenes tour under, inside and on 'The Dish' - the CSIRO Radio Telescope in Parkes NSW. See how scientists are searching for alien life, how radio signals are received and processed, and see The Dish moving up close.
Thanks to CSIRO and Operations Scientist John Sarkissian for a really entertaining and informative all access tour to learn more about the amazing radio telescope. It's worth a trip to Parkes in New South Wales to see The Dish alone.
This video was filmed during my 7 day epic adventure flying solo from Moorabbin Airport to Longreach, the home of Qantas, and back. Check out the Interview with John about the Apollo 11 mission here:
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NASA 16mm film clip by Gary Neff, from the public domain list of videos here:
Filmed on a Canon EOSM6, various GoPros, and sometimes my iPhone. Audio usually from Epidemic Sound.
A Tour Of The Australian Parkes Radion Telescope
The Parkes Observatory is a radio telescope observatory, located 20 kilometres north of the town of Parkes, New South Wales, Australia.
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A tour of the Parkes radio telescope (1979)
Dr Jon Ables, an astronomer with the CSIRO Division of Radiophysics, takes us on a tour of the 64 metre radio telescope near Parkes, New South Wales. He points out its main features and explains how observations of distant galaxies are carried out day and night.
Video transcript available here:
This Is The Australian CSIRO Parkes Observatory
The Parkes Observatory is a radio telescope observatory, located 20 kilometres north of the town of Parkes, New South Wales, Australia. It was one of several radio antennas used to receive live, televised images of the Apollo 11 moon landing on 20 July 1969.
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The feature film The Dish showcased the CSIRO Parkes Radio Telescope and the town’s role in the 1969 moon landing to an international audience. But many of the scenes were actually shot in nearby Forbes, adding to the friendly rivalry between the two Central West New South Wales towns.
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Parkes Radio Telescope
Parkes Radio Telescope in action
A Tour of the Parkes Radio Telescope
A strange animated 1990s educational movie, pitched at primary school children, using a flippant humorous Aussie style to engage youngsters with a short attention spans. (*cringe*)
Copyright CSIRO.au 1990 but not held by any Australian library under the librariesaustralia umbrella. A VHS tape version may exist in the US Library of Congress or in the British Library. This digital transfer is from a VHS tape discovered in a Melbourne Op-Shop.
Parkes Dish Documentary
Here is some interesting scenes from The Parkes Reciever Telescope Dish in New South Wales
Australia. The dish track Apollo 11 movements to the Moon. Bringing those orginal black and white
images of Neil Armstrong walking on the moon back in 1969 20th century.
Stay tune more great highlights coming soon on this amazing australian story.
Virtual tour of the Parkes Observatory Radio Telescope 'the dish' ????????
Ever wonder what's hiding under the massive 1000 tonne dish at the Parkes Observatory Radio Telescope?
CSIRO’s Dr Jane Kaczmarek gives us a vitual tour and explains some of the inner workings of 'the dish'.
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Reflection Space by Alex Arcoleo. Amongst the Stars by Dan Skinner, Adam Skinner. Feeling Free by Alex Arcoleo and Adam Skinner.
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Parkes Pictorial.
Parkes Town Photo Pictorial Video. See the Parkes radio telescope as well.
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'The Dish' - CSIRO Parkes Radio Telescope 2013
A VIP visit to The Dish, located at Parkes New South Wales, Australia. This facility is owned and operated by the CSIRO. Please note dish movements have been sped up 400%. Music by Richard Gillard.
- From Wikipedia -
Radio telescope
The Parkes Radio Telescope, completed in 1961, was the brainchild of E.G. (Taffy) Bowen, chief of the CSIRO's Radiophysics Laboratory. During the Second World War, he had worked on radar development in the US and had made some powerful friends in the scientific community. Calling on this old boy network, he persuaded two philanthropic organisations, the Carnegie Corporation and the Rockefeller Foundation to fund half the cost of the telescope. It was this recognition and key financial support from the US that persuaded then Prime Minister Robert Menzies to agree to fund the rest of the project.
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. The two are dynamically locked when tracking an astronomical object by a laser guiding system. This primary-secondary approach was designed by Barnes Wallis.
The success of the Parkes telescope led NASA to copy the basic design in their Deep Space Network, with matching 64 m dishes built at Goldstone, Madrid and Tidbinbilla.
Hardware
The primary observing instrument is the 64-metre movable dish telescope, second largest in the Southern Hemisphere, and one of the first large movable dishes in the world (DSS-43 'Deep Space Station'-43 at Tidbinbilla was extended from 64 m to 70 m in 1987, surpassing Parkes). After its completion it has operated almost continuously to the present day. The dish surface was physically upgraded by adding smooth metal plates to the central part to provide focusing capability for centimetre and millimetre length microwaves. The outer part of the dish remains a fine metal mesh, creating its distinctive two-tone appearance.
Historical non-astronomy research
During the Apollo missions to the moon, the Parkes Observatory was used to relay communication and telemetry signals to NASA, providing coverage for when the moon was on the Australian side of the Earth.
The telescope also played a role in relaying data from the NASA Galileo mission to Jupiter that required radio-telescope support due to the use of its backup telemetry subsystem as the principal means to relay science data.
The big dish
The observatory has remained involved in tracking numerous space missions up to the present day, including
• Mariner 2
• Mariner 4
• Voyager
• Giotto
• Galileo
• Cassini-Huygens
The observatory and telescope were featured in the 2000 film The Dish, a fictionalised account of the observatory's involvement with the Apollo 11 moon landing.
The CSIRO has made several documentaries on this observatory, with some of these documentaries being posted to YouTube.
Apollo 11 broadcast
ABC news report on the role of the Parkes telescope and the Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station, a week before the moon landing.
When Buzz Aldrin switched on the TV camera on the Lunar Module, three tracking antennas received the signals simultaneously. They were the 64 metre Goldstone antenna in California, the 26 metre antenna at Honeysuckle Creek near Canberra in Australia, and the 64 metre dish at Parkes.
In the first few minutes of the broadcast, NASA alternated between the signals being received from its two stations at Goldstone and Honeysuckle Creek, searching for the best quality picture.
A little under nine minutes into the broadcast, the TV was switched to the Parkes signal. The quality of the TV pictures from Parkes was so superior that NASA stayed with Parkes as the source of the TV for the remainder of the 2.5 hour broadcast. For a comprehensive explanation of the TV reception of the Apollo 11 broadcast, see The Television Broadcasts from the report On Eagles Wings.
On Monday, 31 October 2011, Google replaced its logo with a Google Doodle in honor of Parkes Observatory's 50th Anniversary. It was only visible on Google in Australia.
Mars rovers
In 2012 the Observatory received special signals from the Mars rover Opportunity (MER-B), to simulate the Curiosity rover UHF radio. This helped prepare for the then upcoming Curiosity (MSL) landing in early August—it successfully touched down on August 6, 2012.
Radio Telescope time lapse Parkes Parkes Observatory, Australia
Parkes Radio Telescope
New South Wales Australia
29 August 2010
1430 - 2145 Local time
Parkes Observatory, just outside the central-west NSW town of Parkes, hosts the 64-metre Parkes radio telescope, one of the telescopes comprising CSIRO's Australia Telescope National Facility.
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Parkes New South Wales Australia Radio Telescope That Received First Video Feed From the Moon
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Parkes Observatory is a radio telescope observatory, 20 kilometres north of the town of Parkes, New South Wales, Australia. It was one of several radio antennas used to receive live, televised images of the Apollo 11 moon landing on 20 July 1969.
The Parkes Radio Telescope, completed in 1961, was the brainchild of E.G. (Taffy) Bowen, chief of the CSIRO's Radiophysics Laboratory. During the Second World War, he had worked on radar development in the US and had made some powerful friends in the scientific community. Calling on this old boy network, he persuaded two philanthropic organisations, the Carnegie Corporation and the Rockefeller Foundation to fund half the cost of the telescope. It was this recognition and key financial support from the US that persuaded then Prime Minister Robert Menzies to agree to fund the rest of the project.
The Radio Telescope - Parkes 50th Anniversary of the Moon Landing Celebrations
Poem The Radio Telescope by Kerrie Peden
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Animator: Jason Nacho Murchie, Tanjim Islam, Sean James Cassidy
Film Editor: Jason Nacho Murchie
Sound Recordist: Jason Nacho Murchie
Voice: Kerrie Peden
Concept Artist: Sean James Cassidy
Asset Designer: Sean James Cassidy
Project Producer: Sean James Cassidy
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It stood with its hands on its hips
And its nose pressed up against the stars
Listening to the gossip of the galaxies
Trying to catch the whispers of how it all began
Poet: Kerrie Peden
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The poet grew up witnessing the construction of the Radio Telescope and some years later, watched in awe, as pictures of the moon landing were transmitted from the telescope to the world. This work investigates the eager desire to reach out and explore the mysteries beyond our world. Radio Telescope sits in the Goobang Valley dusk.
Thumbnail Artist: Sean James Cassidy
Special Thanks: Parkes Shire Council
CSIRO The Dish @ Parkes, NSW, Australia
This is The Dish used 1969 to capture the Apollo 11 moon landing.
After I set the mobile phone to airplane mode I was allowed to film the movement of the antenna. Very impressive.
With the new antenna housing on top this antenna is still in usage.
Great place and worth the 5 hours road trip from Sydney.
The visitor center is open from 8am to 4:15pm every day except Boxing Day.
Parkes Radio Telescope 'The Dish' Time-lapse Photography
A short timelapse compilation of The Dish, Parkes Radiotelescope, NSW Australia. Made with LRTimelapse.
THE DISH CSIRO PARKES RADIO TELESCOPE TOUR
Parkes Radio Telescope
A short video driving up to the Parkes Radio Telescope, a.k.a. 'The Dish'
The Dish - Parkes Radio Telescope
A weekend of timelapse footage of the Parkes Radio Telescope, night and day.
The Dish - Parkes Radio Telescope
Some archive footage of The Dish at the Parkes Radio Telescope facility being being test rotated. Shot at x4 speed.