Mount Stromlo Observatory
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Mount Stromlo Observatory located in the west of Canberra, Australia, is part of the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Australian National University. Australia's oldest telescope a
Remains of the old administration building with the dome of the Farnham telescope
Remains of the dome of the 1.3 metres (50 in) Great Melbourne telescope
Statue of an astronomer and the concept of the cosmic distance ladder, created by scientist and artist Tim Wetherell, made from the azimuth ring and other parts of the Yale-Columbia Refractor (telescope) (c 1925) wrecked by the 2003 Canberra bushfires which burned out the Mount Stromlo Observatory; at Questacon, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory.
Giant Magellan Telescope
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The Giant Magellan Telescope is a ground-based, extremely large telescope currently under construction at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile's Atacama Desert. With a primary mirror diameter of 25.4 met
Mount Stromlo Observatory
…wire fused into it from the fierce heat of the fire. Redevelopment is completed and the Observatory is now a major partner in the construction of the Giant Magellan Telescope. The current observatory director is Stuart Wyithe. The director's residence, destroyed in the 2003 fire, was rebuilt and opened to the public as a…
The Giant Magellan Telescope Exterior Illustration
An aerial view of the Giant Magellan Telescope construction site.
Giant Magellan Telescope rendering
Light path on GMT