Hi,
My mate Adam (on the right : Buddman) and myself ( Batema ) were lucky enough to be invited to talk about how we incorporate astronomy into our Physics course at high school at the radio observatory "THE DISH" at Parkes. The conference went for three days and on Saturday morning 15th May we were fortunate to do a tour of the telescope. It was a privilege and we thought we would post some picyures, not to gloat, but to share. It was truely amazing and an experience I will treasure for life.
To access the dish we went up through the control rooms in the centre and the electronic systems looked scary. The othe group of teachers waited until the dish lowered itself until they could litterally walk onto the edge rim and then it was raised to the upright position so we could walk underneath it to gain access through a hatch on the edge and we were on. After about twenty minutes the rolls were reversed and we waited until the group went down through the centre and we were lowered to the ground where we stepped off.
Other photos show the dish at sunset glowing with the setting suns rays and also at night.
It was an amazing experience and a true pleasure to see this amazing piece of scientific equipment as well as here from some very young PHD students and the research they were doing into black holes and binary pulsars to name a few.
Mark
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You go guys. hit that professional development. There should be more of this sort of stuff for science teachers.
