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So there's a Carnarvon in Australia that has to do with radio telescopes and a Carnarvon in South Africa that has to do with radio telescopes? In South Africa,
by botanical 2y ago
So there's a Carnarvon in Australia that has to do with radio telescopes and a Carnarvon in South Africa that has to do with radio telescopes? In South Africa, the Square Kilometre Array telescopes (and others) are situated within the Meerkat National Park outside of Carnarvon.
- blutack 2y agoIt's an anglicized version of a town in Wales: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caernarfon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caernarfon
- voidUpdate 2y agoI was a little sad it wasn't that one, I'd have liked to go and see a radio telescope
- dcminter 2y agoJodrell Bank⁰ is open to visitors; not in Wales, but not a million miles away either. I remember reading something in The Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy as a child and not just not knowing where "Jodrell Bank and Woomera" were, but not knowing what manner of thing they were either :) ⁰ https://www.jodrellbank.net/ https://www.jodrellbank.net/
- ascorbic 2y agoI've only been once, but I highly recommend Blue Dot Festival, which is a music and science festival held at Jodrell Bank. On the one hand it's a classic UK music festival, but alongside the usual stalls selling Peruvian hats and vegan wraps there are lots of stalls with grad students sharing cool stuff that they're working on. Like the best festivals it's good for kids but also good for all night drum and bass sessions. https://discoverthebluedot.com/ https://discoverthebluedot.com/
- voidUpdate 2y agoOh, I thought that one was in australia too haha, thats a lot closer to me
- plugger 2y agoWe also have SKA deployments out here, the Murchison observatory that's part of SKA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murchison_Radio-astronomy_Observatory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murchison_Radio-astronomy_Obse... And we have the Pawsey Supercomputer that is working through a lot of the SKA data. https://pawsey.org.au/ https://pawsey.org.au/