Corporate Body
Mount Stromlo Observatory (1957 - c. 1967)
Australian National University
- From
- 1957
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia - To
- c. 1967
- Functions
- Astronomy or Space Science and Observatory
- Reference No
- CA 634
- Legal Status
- Agency of the Commonwealth of Australia
Summary
The Mount Stromlo Observatory was established in 1957 when the control of the Commonwealth Observatory was transferred from the Department of the Interior to the Australian National University. In the late 1960s the University gained control of the Siding Spring Observatory and began operating the two as integrated observatories.
Related entries
Timeline
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
Archival resources
Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science
Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- Smith, Ailie, Adolph Basser Library Manuscript Collection, eScholarship Research Centre, 2012, http://www.eoas.info/basser_browse.html. Details
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
Book Sections
- Orchiston, W., 'Mount Stromlo Observatory' in The Astronomy Encyclopaedia, P. Moore, ed. (London: 1988), pp. 276-277. Details
Journal Articles
- Gascoigne, B., 'Mount Stromlo Observatory: the Early Years', Sky and Space, 7 (3) (1994), 18-21. Details
- Gascoigne, B., 'Mount Stromlo Observatory: the Modern Years', Sky and Space, 8 (1) (1995), 24-28. Details
- Gascoigne, S. C. B., 'History of Australian Astronomy: Astro-physics at Mount Stromlo, the Woolley Era', Proceedings of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 5 (1984), 597-605. Details
- Orchiston, Wayne, 'The Mount Stromlo Fires: a Major Heritage Loss for Australian Astronomy', Journal of the British Astronomical Association, 113 (2003), 73-74. Details
- Woolley, Richard van der Riet, 'Mount Stromlo Observatory', Records of the Australian Academy of Science, 1 (3) (1968), 53-57. http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9680130053.htm. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1310548. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/154435453. Details
- Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-508278. Details
Resource Sections
- 'Primary description of agency CA 634; Commonwealth Solar Observatory/ (by 1950) Commonwealth Observatory/ (from 1957) Mount Stromlo Observatory/ (by 1967) Mount Stromlo and Sidining Spring Observatories, Registration of entity: 22 March 1982', in RecordSearch, National Archives of Australia, 2000, https://RecordSearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/AutoSearch.asp?Number=CA%20634. Details
Reviews
- Bhathal, Ragbir, Sutherland, Ralph and Butcher, Harvey, Mt Stromlo Observatory: From Bush Observatory to the Nobel Prize (2013)
Orchiston, Wayne, Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, 18 (1), (2015), 107-11. Details - Frame, Tom and Faulkner, Don, Stromlo: an Australian Observatory (2003)
Sherratt, Tim, Historical Records of Australian Science, 15 (1), (2004), 121-124. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR03015. Details
See also
- Orchiston, Wayne, 'The Changing Role of the "Catts Telescope": the Life and Times of a Nineteenth Century 20-inch Grubb Reflector', Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, 13 (2010), 235-54. Details
Helen Cohn
Created: 7 August 2003, Last modified: 15 February 2024