Australian Radio Telescope
MAR 01, 1962
DOI: 10.1063/1.3058062
Tests of the new Australian radio telescope at Parkes, New South Wales, have indicated that the instrument performs as sensitivitely as its planners had hoped. Since October 31 of last year, when it was formally commissioned, the telescope has been recording up to three times as many radio sources in a given part of the sky as were known to exist before. The 210‐foot dish is now the world’s second largest parabolic reflector; it is slightly smaller than the one at Jodrell Bank, although its sensitivity is rated higher.
© 1962. American Institute of Physics
