Parkes AU Radio Telescope

[Ozzie_Traveller8]

G'day all

The world-famous telescope that has been gazing to the heavens for over 65 yrs



As always, feedback welcome
Phil

 

[Jeff1559 59]

Nice shot ....

 

[Ozzie_Traveller8]

Thanks fellas

I spent 1/2-hr wandering thru their educational displays + a dozen or so children's torment activities- both indoors and outdoors and it was all quite interesting. Then the 20-min audio-visual displays of current & past achievements was also of interest

Q- do you know that the WiFi that we use so widely was created here at the Parkes radio telescope? ... as a means of getting different bits of electronic gear to actually talk to another bits, whereas beforehand it was difficult because of proprietary software that did not match other maker's stuff

It was then taken up by all the major I,T players via licencing and brings in lots of $$ to Australia's CSIRO people who run the telescope (+ heaps of other stuff)
Phil