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|image=CSIRO ScienceImage 4350 CSIROs Parkes Radio Telescope with moon in the background.jpg
|size=300
|title=[[Parkes Observatory]]
|texttitle=Parkes Observatory
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The '''[[Parkes Observatory]]''' is a [[radio telescope]] observatory in [[New South Wales]], Australia, located {{convert|20|km}} north of the town of [[Parkes, New South Wales|Parkes]]. It was one of several radio antennae used to receive live television images of the [[Apollo 11]] moon landing on 20–21 July 1969. Its scientific contributions over the decades has led the [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]] to describe it as "the most successful scientific instrument ever built in Australia" after 50 years of operation. The observatory, which opened in 1961, is run by the [[CSIRO|Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation]] (CSIRO), an independent Australian federal government agency, as part of the [[Australia Telescope National Facility]] network of radio telescopes. It is frequently operated together with other CSIRO radio telescopes to form a [[very-long-baseline interferometry]] array.
This picture, taken in 1969, shows the Parkes Observatory's main {{convert|64|m|adj=on}} diameter radio telescope dish, around the time that it received signals from Apollo 11, with a crescent moon visible in the background. The photograph is part of CSIRO's ScienceImage archive.
|credit=Photograph credit: [[CSIRO]]
}}<noinclude>[[Category:Wikipedia Picture of the day {{#time:F Y|{{SUBPAGENAME}}}}]]
==See also==
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|image=CSIRO ScienceImage 4350 CSIROs Parkes Radio Telescope with moon in the background.jpg
|size=300
|title=[[Parkes Observatory]]
|texttitle=Parkes Observatory
|caption=
The '''[[Parkes Observatory]]''' is a [[radio telescope]] observatory in [[New South Wales]], Australia, located {{convert|20|km}} north of the town of [[Parkes, New South Wales|Parkes]]. It was one of several radio antennae used to receive live television images of the [[Apollo 11]] moon landing on 20–21 July 1969. Its scientific contributions over the decades has led the [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]] to describe it as "the most successful scientific instrument ever built in Australia" after 50 years of operation. The observatory, which opened in 1961, is run by the [[CSIRO|Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation]] (CSIRO), an independent Australian federal government agency, as part of the [[Australia Telescope National Facility]] network of radio telescopes. It is frequently operated together with other CSIRO radio telescopes to form a [[very-long-baseline interferometry]] array.
This picture, taken in 1969, shows the Parkes Observatory's main {{convert|64|m|adj=on}} diameter radio telescope dish, around the time that it received signals from Apollo 11, with a crescent moon visible in the background. The photograph is part of CSIRO's ScienceImage archive.
|credit=Photograph credit: [[CSIRO]]
}}<noinclude>[[Category:Wikipedia Picture of the day {{#time:F Y|{{SUBPAGENAME}}}}]]
==See also==
*[[Template:POTD{{#ifeq:{{BASEPAGENAME}}|POTD protected||_protected}}/{{SUBPAGENAME}}]]</noinclude>