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In lugnet.loc.au, Travis Matheson wrote:
> > On 21st July 1969, Parkes Observatory gained fame for providing TV
> > pictures for
> > all but about 11 minutes of the first lunar landing, via
> > <http://www.lugnet.com/~469/projects/parkes their 64 metre radio telescope>.
> > Since then, it has become an important cog in the wheel of space exploration,
> > and has become part of Australian folklore, even becoming the subject of
> > <http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0205873/ a movie>.
>
> Very nice Ross, how long did it take to put this together?
Thanks! Well, I had the dish part already built for another project
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=96179 but saw that it would work
just as well up the other way. The rest took but a few hours.
> however, I reckon the <http://ldraw.org/library/official/images/7/30201.png
> Saucer Base> might have been a different alternative for the
> dish. although it might work out a bit bigger than the scale you have here
Well I had in the past looked at using parts like that for a radar dish, even
this http://ldraw.org/library/official/images/7/30116.png but the angle is just
a little too steep for a large dish, and the attachment points are at 90 degree
intervals, which doesn't work for parkes.
> Very Aussie though!
Thanks, put another snag on the barby, will ya?
ROSCO
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