Humans are en route to the moon for the first time in 54 years – and Australia’s Dish is tracking them

The Murriyang radio telescope in Parkes, NSW broadcast the moon landing in 1969 and is now observing the Artemis II lunar mission

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/apr/02/humans-are-en-route-to-the-moon-for-the-first-time-in-54-years-and-australias-dish-is-tracking-them

#Artemis #Moon #NASA #SPACE #News #Australia #Parkes

Passend zur #Artemis Mond Mission schaue ich mir heute Abend mal wieder den australischen Film "The Dish" an, der sich um das #Radioteleskop in #Parkes während der Mondlandung dreht. Tolle Charaktere, alles nett gemacht... Kann man immer mal wieder schauen. Hab ich schon ewig in meiner Sammlung. #TheDish #Apollo11

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dish

kinda glad the #silly wheels haven't entirely come off  

"Parkes Elvis Festival transcends language and culture"

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-10/parkes-elvis-festival-toki-toyokazu-singing/106209036

#parkes #elvis #besilly #bekind

The Dish: An icon of Australian astronomy reaching out to the cosmos.

Parks, New South Wales, Australia.

Photo and edit by Kev.

© 𝓐𝓵𝓵 𝓡𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽𝓼 𝓡𝓮𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓿𝓮𝓭 𝓫𝔂 𝟐 𝓟𝓮𝓮𝓹𝓼 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓪 𝓒𝓪𝓶𝓮𝓻𝓪.

(𝒟ℴ𝓊𝒷𝓁ℯ 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝒫ℯℯ𝓅𝓈, 𝒹ℴ𝓊𝒷𝓁ℯ 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝓅ℯ𝓇𝓈𝓅ℯ𝒸𝓉𝒾𝓋ℯ!)

#photo #photography #2peepsandacamera #australia #nsw #parkes #ParkesObservatory #RadioTelescope #Astronomy #TheDish

My first visit to Parkes, home of Australia's famous radio telescope (AKA The Dish) and to an annual Elvis Festival, is also home to a car museum, an Elvis memorabilia exhibition owned by a former Wiggle, some lovely architecture, the first vertical grain silos built by the Commonwealth and, yesterday, the inaugural Goodness Gravel Parkes event (what I was here for).

#GoodnessGravel #Parkes

The Dish: Fact vs fiction

The Dish is an Aussie classic, set at Murriyang, a.k.a the Parkes radio telescope. Most of the film is based on fact, but what was added for the sake of a (rollicking) good yarn?

https://www.csiro.au/en/news/All/Articles/2025/October/the-dish-fact-vs-fiction

#Murriyang #Parkes #TheDish #radiotelescope #astrodon #Australia #movie