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The Kennedy 18-m antenna at Parkes was originally used at the Fleurs radio astronomy site 40km from Sydney.
It was transferred to the Parkes site in 1963 and mounted on railway tracks
for use as a variable baseline interferometer with the Parkes 64m dish.
Venkatraman Radhakrishnan, Miller Goss and John Murray
used that instrument to make the first HI absorption measurements.
In 1973 Don Mathewson and John Murray used a modified version of
the original receiver on the Kennedy dish to discover the Magellanic stream -– a trail of gas extending from
the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds galaxies and halfway around our own.
John Sarkissian took this image in 2001.
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