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[edit] Largest Radio Telescope in the southern hemisphere
Tidbinbilla is the largest antenna in the southern hemisphere, but it is a communications station not a radio telescope. Parkes is the largest radio telescope. --Robminchin 04:22, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
- Actually Parkes is the largest steerable dish used for radio astronomy, not the largest radiotelescope. The Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope is larger (but is not a dish). I'll reword slightly. -dmmaus 06:48, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
- Tidbinbilla can also be used as a radio astronomy antenna. In fact, both Parkes and Tidbinbilla have done both. --Spindocbob 08:46, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
The intro says
- "It is best known as the dish which sent images of the first moon landing to the rest of the world."
But the section headed Apollo 11 Broadcast says
- "Parkes Observatory was not the first station to broadcast images from the Apollo 11 moon landing"
Seems a bit fuzzy to me, misleading at best. Should the intro say it is best known as "one of the" dishes which sent images to the world? Kaiwhakahaere (talk) 20:45, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] confusing
The third paragraph under "The radio telescope" heading it says "It was used as a transmit uplink antenna in the Apollo program and has been abandoned since the early 1980s." -- Its unclear to me whether that means the telescope itself has been abandoned or the program this paragraph references —Preceding unsigned comment added by 61.68.22.48 (talk) 22:01, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Better google doodle reference
When google add it to their logos page (http://www.google.com/logos/) please someone change the existing reference. It currently feels like a covert spam link (Whatever the MW shortcut for that is). kgoetz (talk) 09:47, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
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- Thanks to annon who fixed that up :) kgoetz (talk) 22:27, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
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