Parkes 329m, town in the district Parkes Shire in New South Wales. View in south direction to Parkes Radioobservatory about 20 km far from Parkes. Parkes has become well known because of its transmission of the first landing on the moon of Apollo 11 (21st July 1969, three fivety six am CET) to the rest of the world. Presented by https://www.atnf.csiro.au/.