Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories (c. 1967 - )

Summary

Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories consist of two observatories operating under the control of the Australian National University. The Observatories are part of the University's Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics. In January 2003 bushfires destroyed more than $40 million of facilities and equipment at the Mount Stromlo Observatory. Restoration and redevelopment of the facilities began shortly afterwards.

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

Published resources

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
• Haynes, Raymond, Haynes, Roslynn, Malin, David and McGee, Richard, Explorers of the Southern Sky: a History of Australian Astronomy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 540 pp. Details
• Lojkine, A. K., Mount Stromlo Observatory: a history and description of the Observatory; its work, and its equipment (Canberra: Research School of Physical Sciences, Australian National University, 1957), 51 pp. Details
• Miller, M. J., Mount Stromlo Observatory and the Siding Spring Observatory Field Station ([Canberra]: Research School of Physical Science, Australian National University, [s.d.]), 51 pp. Details

Book Sections

• Orchiston, W., 'Mount Stromlo Observatory' in The Astronomy Encyclopaedia, P. Moore, ed. (London: 1988), pp. 276-277. Details

Journal Articles

• 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
• Bhathal, Ragbir, 'How the US Influenced Mount Stromlo', A&G: News and Reviews in Astronomy & Geophysics, 56 (1) (2015), 1.19-1.21, http://astrogeo.oxfordjournals.org/content/56/1/1.19.abstract?etoc. Details
• 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., 'Astrophysics at Mount Stromlo: the Woolley Era', Proceedings of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 5 (1984), 597-605. 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
• Gould, Ross, 'The Founding of Siding Spring Observatory', Southern Sky, 4 (1994), 19-23. Details
• Hyland, A. R.; and Faulkner, D. J., 'From the Sun to Universe - the Woolley and Bok Directorships at Mount Stromlo', Proceedings of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 8 (2) (1989), 216-228. 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

• Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-636000. Details
• Sherratt, Tim; Condé, Anne-Marie, A Wartime Observatory Observed - the Mount Stromlo Community, 1940-1945, Australian Science Archives Project, Canberra, 1994, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/pubs/articles/tps/tps_stromlo_draft.htm. 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)
  Frater, Bob, Historical Records of Australian Science, 25 (2), (2014), 363-4, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR14025. 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