Parkes Observatory radio telescope (The Dish)
Radiotelescopio de Parkes (The Dish)
- Date
- octubre de 1961 · confidence high
- Place
- Parkes, New South Wales, Australia
- Credited to
- CSIRO, with Taffy Bowen and John Bolton
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What it is
A 64 m steerable-dish radio telescope opened in 1961, for decades the largest in the southern hemisphere. It detected pulsars and fast radio bursts and received signals from Apollo 11.
In 1962 a lunar occultation observed at Parkes pinned down the position of 3C 273, which allowed the first quasar to be identified in 1963.
What it led to
- discovery of hundreds of pulsars and the first fast radio bursts
- southern radio astronomy and spacecraft-tracking networks
- the lunar occultation that fixed the position of 3C 273