One mile telescope March 2012

Well I have no idea where the mile part comes from as the tracks are actually 800m. Well according to Wikipedia anyway. Doing more research is just getting confusing. I have found that there maybe more to the site than what I or others have posted.
Some of the site is live with one big dish here and some others nearby.
Here are a few of my shots.

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Not able to get into the buildings but got a couple through the window.

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Lastly a couple of what I guess is a live dish on the site

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There's another standalone dish to the East, making the maximum triangulation distance (or parallax, I dunno which term they prefer) 1 mile.

The large white radio telescope is still in use.

Nice one! Glad to see this one again!
Great shots!

I didn't know that Cogito! Cheers for extra info!

cogito said:

There's another standalone dish to the East, making the maximum triangulation distance (or parallax, I dunno which term they prefer) 1 mile.

The large white radio telescope is still in use.

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I know the one you mean. I think one of the shots is from it. Thanks for the explanation.

What a pristine site that must have a pleasure to explore,great pics.

These radio telescopes can be coupled together. Two dishes, one mile apart work the same as one dish that is one mile across. It's called an Interferometric Telescope.

Great shots. Thank you.

Cracking stuff, love this site

there's another dish close by that is really easy to get into

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7357/9328133755_b73d8e720f_k.jpg

Thanks to you all.

PaulPowers said:

Cracking stuff, love this site

there's another dish close by that is really easy to get into

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7357/9328133755_b73d8e720f_k.jpg

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Cheers. I think I know which one you mean. Unless ya on about the salad bowl.