A number of major astronomical facilities are located at the Paul Wild Observatory near Narrabri, Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

, including:

• The Australia Telescope Compact Array
  Australia Telescope Compact Array
  The Australia Telescope Compact Array is a radio telescope at the Paul Wild Observatory, twenty five kilometres west of the town of Narrabri in Australia....
  
   radio telescope
  Radio telescope
  A radio telescope is a form of directional radio antenna used in radio astronomy. The same types of antennas are also used in tracking and collecting data from satellites and space probes...
  
  
• The Sydney University Stellar Interferometer (see http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/astron/susi/ )
• A node of the Birmingham Solar Oscillations Network
  Birmingham Solar Oscillations Network
  The Birmingham Solar Oscillations Network consists of a network of six remote solar observatories monitoring low-degree solar oscillation modes. It is operated by the High Resolution Optical Spectroscopy group of the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Birmingham, UK, in...
  
  
• The Ionospheric Prediction Service (see http://www.ips.gov.au/ ).

The observatory is named in honor of Australian radio astronomer Paul Wild

John Paul Wild

Dr John Paul Wild AC CBE MA ScD FRS FTSE FAA was a British-born Australian radio astronomer and national science leader who served as chairman of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation 1978-1985.Paul Wild was born in Sheffield, England in 1923...

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Two other astronomical facilities are located nearby (although not on the same site). They are the Narrabri Stellar Intensity Interferometer

Narrabri Stellar Intensity Interferometer

The Narrabri Stellar Intensity Interferometer was the first astronomical instrument to measure the diameters of a large number of stars at visible wavelengths. It was designed by Robert Hanbury Brown, who received the Hughes Medal in 1971 for this work...

(now decommissioned) and the Bohema Creek Cosmic Ray Observatory.