Talk:Parkes Observatory
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[edit] Largest Radio Telescope in the southern hemisphere
Tidbinbilla is the largest antenna in the southern hemisphere, but it is a communications station not a radio telescope. Parkes is the largest radio telescope. --Robminchin 04:22, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
- Actually Parkes is the largest steerable dish used for radio astronomy, not the largest radiotelescope. The Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope is larger (but is not a dish). I'll reword slightly. -dmmaus 06:48, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
- Tidbinbilla can also be used as a radio astronomy antenna. In fact, both Parkes and Tidbinbilla have done both. --Spindocbob 08:46, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Huh?
The intro says
- "It is best known as the dish which sent images of the first moon landing to the rest of the world."
But the section headed Apollo 11 Broadcast says
- "Parkes Observatory was not the first station to broadcast images from the Apollo 11 moon landing"
Seems a bit fuzzy to me, misleading at best. Should the intro say it is best known as "one of the" dishes which sent images to the world? Kaiwhakahaere (talk) 20:45, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
- Goldstone was actually first, but the pictures were terrible. Honeysuckle Creek did the first ten minutes and Parkes the remainder. See: http://members.pcug.org.au/~mdinn/TheDish/ Spindocbob (talk) 12:22, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
