Past events
Mount Stromlo Observatory in conjunction with the Canberra Astronomical Society invite you to attend our public observing nights of 2026. Come and see the craters of the moon, planets, and beautiful star clusters and nebulae. Object visibility will vary depending on the night.
Beyond the Galaxy: Tracing the Baryon Cycle through the Circumgalactic Medium.
Calling all ANU students interested in pursuing research at Mt Stromlo and through the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics!!
Mount Stromlo Observatory in conjunction with the Canberra Astronomical Society invite you to attend our public observing nights of 2026. Come and see the craters of the moon, planets, and beautiful star clusters and nebulae. Object visibility will vary depending on the night.
Prof Francis Bennet
Astronomers have captured illustrations and images of the sky for centuries, underpinned by optical instruments that magnify the universe for our eyes. The same technologies and techniques now address a wider range of applications from monitoring satellites in orbit, to communicating at high speed with lasers including a recent high profile example with Artemis II. This presentation will explore how lenses, mirrors, and optical components are used today in space and astronomy science applications.
Mount Stromlo Observatory in conjunction with the Canberra Astronomical Society invite you to attend our public observing nights of 2026. Come and see the craters of the moon, planets, and beautiful star clusters and nebulae. Object visibility will vary depending on the night.
I will present Australia’s contribution to international geodetic VLBI and its links to the radio astronomy community. While the core products mainly find their way into enabling sciences such as the world’s most precise coordinate frame, more recent applications of VLBI can be found in upcoming space missions (e.g. ESA’s NovaMoon) or intercontinental time and frequency transfer. Current risks and challenges will also be discussed, such as the rapidly increasing man-made radio emissions in space caused by providers of internet via satellites. Improved protection of VLBI frequencies on a global scale is an urgent need if we want satellite services being able to continue operations. This is where science meets policy and international treaties and I will report about current work on this matter at the national level.
On the hunt for supermassive black hole binaries with Pulsar Timing Arrays.