Australian astronomy, space and science links in one place. A collection of interesting Australian sites including schools, government agencies, universities and organisations involved in astronomy, space research and science.

The second largest movable dish telescope in the Southern Hemisphere is the 64-metre movable dish telescope at the Parkes Observatory, 20 kilometres north of the town of Parkes, NSW. If you saw the movie The Dish, you’ll remember that Parkes Observatory (control name PKS) was one of several radio antennas used to receive images of the Apollo 11 moon landing in July 1969.

Parks Observatory has continued to play a part in tracking space missions including the Mariners 2 and 4, Voyager, Giotto, Galileo and Cassini-Huygens probes. Parks has also become a major world research centre for pulsars, with more than half of those currently known today discovered at the Parkes Observatory.

Observatories and Planetariums

Astronomical Societies

23. Astronomical Society of NSW
24. Wollongong Amateur Astronomy
       Club updated
25. Astronomical Society of SA
26. Canberra Astronomical Society
27. Astronomical Society of Melbourne
28. Southeast Queensland Astronomical Society
29. Western Sydney Amateur Astronomical Group

SETI

30. Planetary Society Australian Volunteers
31. SETI Research & Community Development Institute

Search for Near Earth Objects

32. Australian Spaceguard Survey

Radio Astronomy

33. CSIRO Australia Telescope National Facility
34. Australia Telescope Compact Array
35. Mopra Observatory
36. Parkes Observatory
37. Australian Long Baseline Array
38. Mt. Pleasant Radio Observatory
39. Ceduna Radio Observatory
40. Radio Astronomy Group
41. Australian Government Radio & Space Services
42. Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope (MOST)
43. Bruny Island Radio Spectrometer (BIRS) 

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