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Originally Posted by iceman
Nice - I'd like to visit one day.
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Thank you very much Mike
I highly recommend a visit, their visitors centre is exceptional
a direct quote from their site...
"you can see a piece of the Moon that's over 3.8 billion years old, check out the latest images from across the Solar System and beyond, check out spacecraft models, plus flown space hardware and memorabilia."
http://www.cdscc.nasa.gov/Pages/visitorcentre.html
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Originally Posted by pmrid
Nice capture. The whole scene has a slightly ethereal quality - a bit like a scene out of Close Encounters or something similar.
Peter
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Thank you very much Peter
that's exactly what it felt like, that was one of my favourite movies as a child. I was there at about 2am and there was not a soul in sight except for a few cows. After this photograph I drove to the public parking area to get a closer look but it was short lived because a few moment later 'security' switched on the flood lights. I waited a couple minutes to see if they'd come out to speak with me but they didn't, I think the flood lights are enough of a deterrant for anyone thinking of climbing a fence or getting up to no good. It was still raining pretty heavy then so I left...
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Originally Posted by cfranks
Lovely image and quite ethereal as Peter said. It reminds me of when I was Pres. of the Alice Springs Astronomical Society in '75, one of our members submitted a bid for an 80' dish being scrapped at Tidbinbilla! The first we knew about it was a polite letter from them asking us to withdraw our bid.!!  |
Thank you very much
Just driving out there day or night and catching that first glimpe of the giant 70m dish is really impresive, expecially as its nestled away in the hills of Tedbinbilla Park and its the last thing you'd expect to find after dirving through kilometres of bush and farmland.
