# Parkes

*Observatory*

Parkes Observatory, Murriyang

| | |
| --- | --- |
| Where it is | 33.0000° S, 148.2600° E |
| State | AU |
| What is done there | radio observatory |
| Dish | 64 m |
| Still working | yes |

Test ranges, observatories and ground stations are a hand-picked list kept in this project rather than a published catalogue: no catalogue answers which of the world's thousands of observing sites belong on a map of it. The article below is what lets the choice be argued with.

## What it is

Parkes Observatory is a radio astronomy observatory, located 20 kilometres (12 mi) north of the town of Parkes, New South Wales, Australia. It hosts Murriyang, the 64 m CSIRO Parkes Radio Telescope also known as "The Dish", along with two smaller radio telescopes.

## Elsewhere

- This place on the live map: https://www.orbitalmap.space/?at=-33.00,148.26
- The article this row is vouched by: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkes_Observatory
- Every object: https://www.orbitalmap.space/o/
- What this site is and what it reads: https://www.orbitalmap.space/llms.txt

## Where this came from

Compiled 2026-09-17. Selected by hand for this project. Description from Wikipedia (en). Description: CC BY-SA 4.0.