| 27th of May 2015 |
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| The Parkes focus cabin |
| by Jing Wang (CASS) |
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Viewing the focus cabin from the surface the "The Dish" before the start
of the teachers' workshop at Parkes. The top of the cabin is 58 m above
the ground; it is held up by three 27-m struts. The cabin hosts several
receivers, which are moved into the focus along a translator as required
by the scheduled observing project. The 64-m Parkes Telescope operates twenty four hours per day, through rain and cloud. It is now 10 000 times more sensitive than when it was commissioned. |