Parkes Observatory

The Parkes Observatory (also known as " The Dish " ) is a radio telescope observatory, located 20 kilometres (12 mi) north of the town of Parkes, New South Wales, Australia.

It was one of several radio antennae used to receive live television images of the Apollo 11 Moon landing.. The Parkes Observatory is run by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), as part of the Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF) network of radio telescopes. It is frequently operated together with other CSIRO radio telescopes, principally the array of six 22-metre (72 ft) dishes at the Australia Telescope Compact Array near Narrabri, and a single 22-metre (72 ft) dish at Mopra (near Coonabarabran), to form a very long baseline interferometry array.. The observatory was included on the Australian National Heritage List on 10 August 2020.