taiwan sarovar I'm client Paul as you
probably figured with the do sitting
behind me there i'm at sea of Sorrows
parks observatory on what is a rather
windy day which is going to make things
a little bit scary because we're going
to go up onto the dishware for today
that the dish is not actually doing any
observation so we can take a camera
equipment inside the dish for a look
around
it was only going to be a small window
of opportunity while the receiver was
being changed receivers a change because
each operator the different frequency so
when you change between research
projects you need to match the receiver
to suit the work a particular scientist
is doing we were told would have about
an hour or so to have a look around the
dish while the technicians completed
their work normally you would be able to
take a video camera inside because the
dishes so sensitive that the small
amount of radio emissions generated by
the electric motor inside the camera
called interfere with the telescope but
before we took the tour I thought it
best if we find out a bit more about the
dish so I asked research projects also
john sarkissian why that is so good at
doing what a dance
there are several reasons why the dishes
so good at discovering passes and other
objects to and one of the main reasons
our location in the world the center of
the Milky Way passes directly overhead
from this location and so the reaches
the most interesting parts of the the
Milky Way galaxy are accessible to us
there that directly overhead and we see
them at their best and the strongest
different and remember to do a
world-leading radio astronomy mr.
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it certainly looks impressive sitting
there in the field and I just came down
to emulate the actors who portrayed
CSIRO star in the Apollo 11 mission
movie the dish or problems with the
world's most expensive ride but here I
am sitting on the dish and we're going
up and it can be quite a few no doubt
little bit like a character out of the
dish movie with samuel was sitting in
this exact same spot overlooking the
shape paddocks as you can see the only
their the write-up provides a great view
which is soon realizes the average of
the teachers risers you no longer
sitting looking down at your feet
so you have to remember to turn around
if you don't want to find yourself
falling backwards down into the center
of the dish and here i am on top of the
dish all right now is my cricket bat
ballin can recreate the entire dish
movie saying but no time for cricket
today the CSIRO take you should still
had work to do a bump on the receiver
and we're preparing for the climb
upwards so here on top the dish
obviously we're about 40 meters above
the ground it's a bit windy and a bit
Ryan eternal self it's scary as the dish
tends to write a little bit here and
there and at any time you just feel like
you're going to fall through and end up
down there from the ground some way but
of course that was all in my mind the
structure itself is actually very strong
and the CSIRO staff who work here and
bothered at all by walking around on it
with the technicians continuing their
work above we weren't going to get a
nice easy ride down on the ditch so it
was through the hatch and onto the
lattice this would take us through the
heart of the original structure
if you think this looks like the inside
of a battleship rather than a radio
telescope
well you're not fire off the company
that built this section also specialized
in ships and submarines a few more
letters and we're under the latticework
of the 300 Tom dish closer to the ground
it certainly is the impressive radio
telescope and has achieved much since
its opening back in the early sixties
but with that in mind one of its future
the telescope was I'm Commission back in
October 1961 when it was built it was
only intended to have a life of about
twenty years or so the fact that we have
almost more than double that is it's
quite amazing and the reason for that of
course is because we've continually
upgraded the telescope over the years so
that today the telescope is 10,000 times
more sensitive than when it was built
and that's allowed astronomers to
continue to use it to make great
discoveries to do great science n to
remain at the very forefront of World
Radio Astronomy the future the telescope
is is quite bright because they'll still
be need for an instrument blackness and
again because of our location the world
the fact that we see the most
interesting parts of the movie way
overhead and so means that we'll
probably have many more years of
productive life ahead of the telescope
and the next generation radio telescopes
that the the radio astronomy communities
is planning will be many many times
larger than the pack telescope in terms
of surface area and so insensitivity but
nonetheless this telescope will still
have a an important term role to play in
radio astronomy and in the research that
we do so we're hopeful that this
telescope has as many more years of
productive life ahead of it still so
that's the famous dish and if you'd like
to find out more about the work that
goes on here hearts just checking out
our website at www.adr.org you
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