The Dish, Parkes

[Octane]

All,

When I went to Parkes for the David Malin Awards, I was lucky enough to be given a tour of The Dish by John Sarkissian. I was accompanied by Alex Cherney and his family.

I took a few photographs on the day.

If you haven't been, I say, go -- it's a very inspiring place. :)

Some of my favourite photographs are here:

http://users.tpg.com.au/octane2/dish.html

H

[bartman]

Yep! I so need to go there !!!!!! one day :(
Bartman

[Shano592]

We stumbled in there in late 2008, while taking a leisurely drive back from Perth. It is actually the moment that piqued my interest for the stars again.

[bloodhound31]

LOVE photo #5!!

[Omaroo]

Some of the best photos I've seen of the Parkes scope. Very nice Humayun.

[Paul Haese]

Nice H, I like the shot in the actual dish. When we did our tour in 2008 we did not get to see that. I found it to be an interesting photographic object for the metal struts and the geometry. I really like the sectional aspect of your shots. When I was doing a lot of architectural shots I would often have that minimalist aspect to my shots. Pieces of a building rather than the whole busy scene.

When we did our tour I did get the one or two shots myself. This one (http://paulhaese.net/parkes.html) is my favourites of our visit. It's the one Chris used for his astro mag. Sorry Chris I cannot remember what the name was. I don't keep track of where or when I have been published.

[iceman]

Nice shots. I still have some shots from the tour that John took my family and I on after the 2010 awards.

Haven't posted them anywhere yet! I should get around to it.

It was great to think of the history there. It made me go home and watch "The Dish" :)

[rmcconachy]

The Parkes Observatory does open days for one weekend each year. The next one is in early October: http://www.parkes.atnf.csiro.au/news_events/opendays/2011/. You get to wander around the whole place including inside the observatory building that forms the support for the dish (unfortunately there is no playing cricket on the dish itself :)). I highly recommend it (and the annual open day at the optical observatory at Siding Springs too)

[Ric]

Great photo's H.

I can only imagine how awesome it must be up close.

[peterl]

Beautiful bit of architecture!!
Lighting is nice and soft for those images.. Sharp as..
The 5d shines..
thanks for showing those H..
Peter .