MY Journey to the Night Sky Starts Sunday,And also where I was Born!!!! Introduction The Narrabri Observatory is part of the Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF), which is operated by the CSIRO; the Site Manager is Brett Hiscock. The site contains the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA), which consists of five moveable antennas on a 3-km east-west railtrack with a 200m north-south spur, and a 6th antenna 3 km further to the west. The site used to be the home of the CSIROs solar radioheliograph. The central area of the observatory 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), IPS Space Services and the University of Birmingham solar seismology installation. The Observatory is situated 24 km west of the town of Narrabri, which is approximately 540 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. Some of the surrounding tourist attractions are described at the end of this guide. The telescope is at latitude -30o18 52.048, longitude +149o32 56327 (east of Greenwich) and its height above sea level is 209.3m. The environment is modestly dry. Temperatures are typically above 30oC on summer afternoons (e.g. January,February),
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