CSIRO - Narrabri, Paul Wild Observatory
Narrabri, NSW, 2390 AU / NSW
Location Description
The Narrabri Observatory is part of the Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF), which is operated by the CSIRO. The site contains the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA), which consists of five moveable antennas on a 3-km railtrack, and a 6th antenna 3 km further to the west. The site used to be the home of the CSIRO's solar radioheliograph. The main area of the Compact Array contains a control building with offices, a library, laboratories, workshops, and The Lodge for visitors and local staff. Also on site are the Sydney University Stellar Interferometer (SUSI), the Ionospheric Prediction Service observatory, the University of Birmingham solar seismology installation and the observatory for International Research on the Interior of the Sun (IRIS), operated by the University of Nice. The Observatory is situated 24 km west of the town of Narrabri, which is approximately 575 km north-west of Sydney. Narrabri has a population of about 7,250 and is the centre of a large irrigation and dry-land farming district which produces cotton, oilseed, premium grade wheat, grain sorghum, and raises cattle and sheep. The telescope is at latitude -30 18' 52".048, longitude +149 32' 56"327 (east of Greenwich) and its height above sea level is 209.3m.
Location Category
- LANDSCAPES - [general]
- LANDSCAPES - Plains / Savannahs
- MUSEUMS / EXHIBITS - [general]
- MUSEUMS / EXHIBITS - Planetarium / Observatory
