Corporate Body

Commonwealth Solar Observatory (1924 - c. 1950)

Commonwealth of Australia

From
1 January 1924
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
To
c. 1950
Functions
Astronomy or Space Science and Observatory
Alternative Names
  • Mount Stromlo Observatory (Now known as)
Reference No
CA 634
Legal Status
Agency of the Commonwealth of Australia
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory

Summary

The Commonwealth Solar Observatory was established in January 1924, one of its purposes being the study of solar phenomena. By 1950 the Observatory's name had changed, becoming the Commonwealth Observatory.

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 1924 - c. 1950 Commonwealth Solar Observatory
       c. 1950 - 1957 Commonwealth Observatory
             1957 - c. 1967 Mount Stromlo Observatory
                   c. 1967 - Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories

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Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

  • Mount Stromlo Observatory, 1936 - 1956, MS 037; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details
  • Walter Geoffrey Duffield - Records, 1880 - 1987, MS 095; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

Books

  • Bhathal, Ragbir, Sutherland, Ralph and Butcher, Harvey, Mt Stromlo Observatory: From Bush Observatory to the Nobel Prize (Collingwood (Vic.): CSIRO, 2013), 330 pp. Details
  • Frame, Tom and Faulkner, Don, Stromlo: an Australian Observatory (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2003), 364 pp. Details

Journal Articles

  • Allen, C. W., 'The Beginnings of the Commonwealth Solar Observatory', Records of the Australian Academy of Science, 4 (1) (1979), 27-49. http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9790410027.htm. Details
  • Gasgoigne, S. C. B., 'Astrophysics at Mount Stromlo: the Woolley era', Proceedings of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 5 (1984), 597-605. Details
  • Love, Rosaleen, 'Science and Government in Australia 1905-14: Geoffrey Duffield and the Foundation of the Commonwealth Solar Observatory', Historical Records of Australian Science, 6 (2) (1985), 171-189. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9850620171. Details

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See also

  • Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_c.html. Details
  • Bhathal, Ragbir, 'How Mount Stromlo Observatory shed its imperial beginnings', A&G: News and Reviews in Astronomy & Geophysics, 55 (6) (2014), 6.33-6.35. Details

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