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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2014 22:17:58 GMT
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Post by Dragon Man on May 31, 2014 12:55:56 GMT
Looks exciting Shevill. Hopefully I will be able to come down and visit the facility in the future. I will be down there in the next 12 months to visit Astro friends in Launceston at Tamar Valley Astronomy Group (A.S.T).
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2014 13:09:23 GMT
I would seriously love to look through something like this!!! Stupid question right...this is a visual scope yeh?
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Post by johnno on May 31, 2014 16:59:22 GMT
Very impressive, Is this just for the university or can the public visit and spend time there?
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2014 21:39:13 GMT
Hi Folks,
This is solely for the use of university and visiting overseas professional astronomers, and is not a visual instrument. Unlike Mt Canopus which had public open nights etc, this facility has been designed to be eventually in time to come, a remotely operated telescope, so here are no provisions for public parking /access. The road in to the site is on private property, 4.1 km long on a narrow track gravel 'road' through 5 double farm gates and takes 15 minutes, plus one hour from Hobart. Mt Canopus is being decommissioned, already the optics and cameras have been removed and the last public open night has been & gone, sadly, the end of an era in Tasmanian astronomy. I have been associated with the Mt Canopus observatories since I arrived in Tasmania in 1968, to take up a new role as a foundation staff member of the new Clinical School Pathology Dept. Enjoyed every day of my life in Tasmania.
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