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| Alternative names | Narrabri Observatory |
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| Named after | Paul Wild  |
| Location | Narrabri, New South Wales, Australia |
| Coordinates | 30°18′50″S 149°33′43″E / 30.314°S 149.562°E |
| Website | www |
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  Location of Paul Wild Observatory | |
The Paul Wild Observatory, also known as the Narrabri Observatory and Culgoora Observatory,[1] is an astronomical research facility located about 24 km west of Narrabri, New South Wales, Australia.[2] It is the home of the Australia Telescope Compact Array, and the Culgoora Solar Observatory.
The site itself and the Australia Telescope Compact Array are run by Australia's science agency, the CSIRO.[1] The current Solar Observatory is run by the Space Weather Services section of Australia's Bureau of Meteorology.[3][4]
The site is named in honour of Australian radio astronomer Paul Wild, who headed the team that built the instrument that the site was established for – the Culgoora Radioheliograph, the world's first radioheliograph[5] – which ran from 1967 to 1984.[6]
The Australia Telescope Compact Array began operating at the site in 1988.[7]
- ^ a b "Visitors Guide to the Narrabri Observatory". CSIRO Australia Telescope National Facility. 30 August 2019. Retrieved 28 February 2021.
- ^ "Narrabri, Paul Wild Observatory". www.csiro.au.
- ^ "About SWS". Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology Space Weather Services. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
:1was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Stewart, Ronald; Wendt, Harry; Orchiston, Wayne; Slee, Bruce (2011). "A Retrospective View of Australian Solar Radio Astronomy 1945-1960". In Orchiston, Wayne (ed.). Highlighting the History of Astronomy in the Asia-Pacific. Springer. p. 589. ISBN 978-1-4419-8160-8.
- ^ "Radio astronomy – observing explosions on the sun". CSIROpedia. 18 April 2013. Retrieved 28 February 2021.
- ^ CSIRO. "Australia Telescope Compact Array". www.csiro.au. Retrieved 5 September 2021.