{"id":131,"date":"2008-09-19T21:52:29","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T11:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yk.mynetscene.com\/places\/?p=131"},"modified":"2012-08-22T18:24:59","modified_gmt":"2012-08-22T08:24:59","slug":"the-dish-parkes-observatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/the-dish-parkes-observatory\/131","title":{"rendered":"The Dish, Parkes Observatory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-132\" title=\"img_8797\"  itemprop=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_8797.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Parkes Observatory, located next to the Parkes (small town in the central-west New South Wales) is famous for its largest in the southern hemisphere radio telescope.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-133 alignleft\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"img_8815\"  itemprop=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_8815.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"375\" \/>64-meter Parkes radio telescope was commissioned in 1961, upgraded in 1997 and until now used for large-scale radio surveys of the sky. It can receive signals on frequencies between 0.3 and 43GHz.<\/p>\n<p>Two thirds of known pulsars were discovered by this radio telescope, and besides star and black hole research it also provides communications with satellites and probes for different space missions.<\/p>\n<p>Role of this telescope in receiving of video footage from moon in 1961 became a base for the fiction movie &#8220;The Dish&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Observatory opens from 8:30am to 4:30pm every day except Christmas holidays.<\/p>\n<p>Located\u00c2\u00a020 kilometers north from Parkes on the Newell Highway (380 kilometers from Sydney), road to observatory is well marked.<\/p>\n<p>Do not forget to switch off all electronic devices including mobile phones and video cameras, photo cameras are ok.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-134\" title=\"img_8850\"  itemprop=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_8850.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Additional information:<br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csiro.au\/places\/ps6n.html\" target=\"_blank\">Parkes Radio Telescope<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Parkes_Observatory\" target=\"_blank\">wikipedia<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; more photos on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/search\/?q=parkes%20telescope&amp;w=all\" target=\"_blank\">flikr<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parkes Observatory, located next to the Parkes (small town in the central-west New South Wales) is famous for its largest in the southern hemisphere radio telescope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[128],"tags":[103,101,17,98,18,104,97,100,102,99],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2211,"href":"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions\/2211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}