1. ATNF Outreach Workshop 3 December 2003
Parkes Discovery Walk
ATNF Outreach Workshop 3 December 2003

2. Concept Radio Astronomy `Heritage Theme Park’
Collect & preserve keystone instruments
Location: Parkes Observatory
Open to the public
Walk through the history of radio astronomy
Interpretive boards describing role of different instruments
Highlight Australia’s leading role in the development of a new science
Last chance to preserve hardware from the seminal decades of radio astronomy

3. Feature instrument 18m (60 foot) Kennedy Antenna
Significant astronomical roles
Considerable historical value
To be retained by ATNF

4. Other possibilities: I
Culgoora Radioheliograph Radioheliograph corner reflectors Radiospectograph antenna
Fleurs Synthesis Tel. (6x13m) Chris Cross (12 x 6m) Shain Cross dipole
Marsfield 4m antenna
Sinclair collection
Reber collection

5. Other possibilities: II
Reconstructed section of Mills Cross prototype
Potts Hill: Solar grating array (3m, India?)
Dover Heights ‘Hole in the ground’
Luneberg Lens
People’s antenna
Student telescope

7. Layout & Logistics Land already available 135,000 visitors already
Innovation trail: up to People’s Telescope
Decision in principle
Staged implementation
Budget
Possible support (CISCO, Argus, Engineers Corps…)

8. Last (but not least) Haystack Small Radio Telescope
2.3m, alt-az mount, full PC control
1.4 & 4.8GHz
Scanning, digital, spectral line receiver
Directly relevant to Parkes
US$6K