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Astronomy and Space
The second largest movable dish telescope in the Southern Hemisphere is the 64-metre movable dish telescope at the Parkes Observatory, 20 kilometres north of the town of Parkes, NSW. If you saw the movie The Dish, you'll remember that Parkes Observatory (control name PKS) was one of several radio antennas used to receive images of the Apollo 11 moon landing in July 1969.
Parks Observatory has continued to play a part in tracking space missions including the Mariners 2 and 4, Voyager, Giotto, Galileo and Cassini-Huygens probes. Parks has also become a major world research centre for pulsars, with more than half of those currently known today discovered at the Parkes Observatory.
Observatories and Planetariums
- Anglo-Australian Observatory
- Ballaarat Municipal Observatory
- Canopus Observatory
- Crago Observatory
Gilgandra Observatory- Golden Grove Observatory
- Grove Creek Observatory
- Heights Observatory
- Perth Observatory
- Sydney Observatory
- Magellan Observatory
- Mt. Kent Observatory
- Adelaide Planetarium
- Parramatta Observatory
- Launceston Planetarium
- Learmonth Solar Observatory
- Sir Thomas Brisbane Planetarium
- Koolang Astronomical Observatory
- Southern Skies Mobile Observatory
- Mt. Stromlo & Siding Spring Observatories
- Wollongong Science Centre & Planetarium
- Melbourne Planetarium at Scienceworks Museum
Astronomical Societies
SETI
Search for Near Earth Objects
Radio Astronomy
- CSIRO Australia Telescope National Facility
- Australia Telescope Compact Array
- Mopra Observatory
- Parkes Observatory
- Australian Long Baseline Array
- Mt. Pleasant Radio Observatory
- Ceduna Radio Observatory
- Radio Astronomy Group
- Australian Government Radio & Space Services
- Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope (MOST)
- Bruny Island Radio Spectrometer (BIRS)
Other Resources
- Gemini 8m Telescopes Project
- MACHO Project
- ACT SkyWatch
- Wiruna Dark Sky Site
- Scitech Discovery Centre
- Square Kilometre Array
- Australian Students Space Assoc
- National Space Society of Australia
- Ionospheric Prediction Service
- National Space Society of Australia
- Multimedia Tour of the 9 Planets
- Southern Cross Cosmos Centre
- Perth Astronomy Research Group
- Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Swinburne University Centre for Astrophysics
- Australian Consortium for Interferometric Gravitational Astronomy
- Science Centre and Planetarium Wollongong
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