| 20th of May 2016 |
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| View from The Dish |
| by John Tuthill (CASS) |
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Daniel, Mia and John took these photos from the Parkes Dish while on an
amazing tour of the instrument which was very generously provided by Parkes
Senior Technical Officer, Tim Ruckley. The left-hand image is of Daniel
harnessed-in and descending the support leg ladder from the focus cabin, and
on the right is a view out over the rim of the 64m Dish to the Patriot 12m
ASKAP prototype antenna and the cultivated fields in the distance on a perfect
autumn day (note the textbook clouds). Mia, Daniel and John were at Parkes to
do some emergency electronics hardware/firmware support for the Max Planck
Institute Phased Array Feed (PAF) system which is being commissioned there
before final transportation to the Effelsberg 100m antenna in the North Rhine
region of Germany. Photo credit: Daniel George, Mia Baquiran, and John Tuthill. |