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Mount Stromlo Observatory papers and plans

  • AU ANUA 744
  • Series
  • 1915 - 2012

Includes correspondence, insurance papers, reports, financial papers, notebooks, photographs, slides, audio-visual material, publications, annual reports, visitor books, blueprints and architectural plans related to Mount Stromlo Observatory (and its predecessor the Commonwealth Solar Observatory. This includes blueprints and drawings related to the design and construction of various telescopes and equipment at the Mount Stromlo site. The collection includes a large number of records related to the 2003 fire which destroyed much of the observatory and the subsequent insurance claims.

Mount Stromlo Observatory

Commonwealth Solar Observatory correspondence

  • AU ANUA 441
  • Series
  • 1927 - 1952

General correspondence files concerning instruments, optical munitions, war research and overseas visits.

Commonwealth Solar Observatory

Records of the Commonwealth Solar Observatory (Mt Stromlo) and Kurt Gottlieb

  • AU ANUA 615
  • Series
  • 1929 - 2000

Includes correspondence, memoranda, reports, articles, photographs and blueprints related to the Commonwealth Solar Observatory (Mt Stromlo Observatory) and the work of Kurt Gottlieb. This includes the design and construction of various telescopes at the Mt Stromlo site, work on optical munitions and site testing and development of the Siding Spring Observatory. The collection includes a large number of photographs of Mt Stromlo equipment, buildings and staff and a large number of blueprints for telescopes, equipment and buildings.

Gottlieb, Kurt

Photographic Zenith Tube (PZT) records

  • AU ANUA 641
  • Series
  • 1926 - 1985

The Australian National Time Service at Mount Stromlo Observatory engages in pure research and sends out time signals which are used for the correction of clocks and as a frequency standard for the determination of exact locations in geodetic and cartographic work, as well as for southern ocean navigation. The Time Service researches, primarily, into problems connected with the motions of the earth and their seasonal and occasional determination. The Photographic Zenith Tube (PZT) is an instrument that checks the time by astronomical means, recording the passages of stars close to the zenith. The PZT was brought into regular use at the Mount Stromlo Observatory from March/April 1957. The last plate observed was on 27 August 1985. The records in this series comprise PZT observing data, Positional Astronomy (National Time Service) day books, minutes of meetings, correspondence, subject files, as well as photographs, diagrams and drawings.

Commonwealth Solar Observatory

Richard van der Riet Woolley's correspondence files

  • AU ANUA 117
  • Series
  • 1925 - 1956

The correspondence files are organised into an alphanumeric subject system and cover addresses and visits by the Commonwealth Astronomer, visits to the Observatory, meetings of the Board of Visitors (Advisory Board) and annual reports. There are some staff files and photographs of observations, eg comets, on some files.

Woolley, Richard van der Riet