Built by the Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in 1961, this telescope is 6km east of the Newell Hwy, 19km north of Parkes.
It became famous thanks to the film The Dish (2000), which told a (somewhat fictionalised) account of the telescope's role in relaying live footage of the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969. There's a visitor centre with space info, a 3D theatre, and information on radio astronomy (the study of radio waves that come from celestial objects).
