Saturday Tower

[Majorman]

OK, so this one reaches further than any other tower I have photographed. :0) This Australian radio telescope helped with the communications during the moon landings and also with the recent asteroid diversion experiment.
Saturday Tower

 

[Matt in Oz]

Hi Majorman

Where is this radio telescope? I am familiar with and have visited the one at Parkes NSW. It assisted with the Apollo missions.

 

[Majorman]

This one is just outside Canberra, out in the bush. There is a museum there as well as a number of radio telescopes. Canberra Deep Space Communication Centre. Do not do what we did and expect to fill the car with fuel out there. Had to go to a village store and get the owner to sell us a couple of gallons to get us back to Canberra.

 

[Matt in Oz]

Thanks Majorman

Not that familiar with Canberra. Amazing you know more about my country than I do! If you are interested the Parkes radio telescope was featured in the movie The Dish Appreciate your knowledge and pictures, thank you.

 

[Majorman]

Saw that film and enjoyed it.

Ann and I spent around a year in Australia between 2011 and 2017, we were due to come back in 2020 but the pandemic got in the way. We spend a few weeks with our many friends in Victoria and South Australia but like to get away and explore. Ann plots out the trips and I do the driving.

Our friends tell us we have seen many animals and things that they have never seen but they also show us many tractors and marvels that we would not see. we stay away from the cities and get out into the country, although have spent a few days in Sidney, Canberra, Melbourne and Adelaide as we travel round, Loved Melbourne and Adelaide but found Canberra very hostile with a take it or leave it attitude unlike everywhere else we travelled.

Love the country and the people, when one person called me a pomme, my friend Allan quickly put him straight with ' He is an Englishman not a pomme' which we took to be a great compliment.

My mother's ancestors travelled there and we have many distant cousins stretching from Perth to Sidney, seems we populated the whole of the Southern part of the continent. I have relations that still farm around Rainbow and Horsham.

 

[Majorman]

Saw that film and enjoyed it.

Ann and I spent around a year in Australia between 2011 and 2017, we were due to come back in 2020 but things got in the way. We spend a few weeks with our many friends in Victoria and South Australia but like to get away and explore. Ann plots out the trips and I do the driving.

Our friends tell us we have seen many animals and things that they have never seen but they also show us many tractors and marvels that we would not see. we stay away from the cities and get out into the country, although have spent a few days in Sidney, Canberra, Melbourne and Adelaide as we travel round, Loved Melbourne and Adelaide but found Canberra very hostile with a take it or leave it attitude unlike everywhere else we travelled.

Love the country and the people, when one person called me a pomme, my friend Allan quickly put him straight with ' He is an Englishman not a pomme' which we took to be a great compliment.

My mother's ancestors travelled there and we have many distant cousins stretching from Perth to Sidney, seems we populated the whole of the Southern part of the continent. I have relations that still farm around Rainbow and Horsham.