[1] The current Solar Observatory is run by the Space Weather Services section of Australia's Bureau of Meteorology.

[7] The children's/teen's television adventure series Sky Trackers was filmed at the site in 1993,[17] with the antenna dishes of the Australia Telescope Compact Array being prominently featured.

In addition to the Paul Wild Observatory, there is a history of astronomical research at other sites in the Narrabri area.

[18] At a site south of Narrabri, near the Bohena Creek, Durham University ran gamma ray telescopes[19] from 1986 to 2000.

[20] The Bohena Creek site had previously been used for Sydney University's Giant Air Shower Recorder (SUGAR) for the detection of cosmic rays.