A Tour of the Parkes Radio Telescope (1979)

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Uploaded by on Jul 14, 2009

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.

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  • Comment lost in space but found by Parkes telescope.

  • Cool tour, the music remind me of Close Encounters of the Third Kind which I guess is from about the same time.

  • Goodness. IN the cosmos...

  • My Father. Rest in peace i the cosmos great pioneer.

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