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Harvey Butcher came to Mount Stromlo in 1970 as a PhD student, lured by the prospect of studying the Southern Sky with the 74” telescope’s Coude Spectrograph.
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Alex Rodgers became the sixth Director of the Observatory in 1986.
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Bok was an enthusiastic and popular Director. He boosted the Observatory’s public outreach by starting star-gazing nights and encouraging visitors.
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Duffield was the natural choice for the first Director of the Commonwealth Solar Observatory – he had spent almost twenty years lobbying for its existence.
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American astrophysicist Penny Sackett became Stromlo’s first female Director in 2002.
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Don Mathewson was Stromlo’s first Australian Director since its founder Walter Geoffrey Duffield. Mathewson began his career in radio astronomy at the CSIRO in 1955, before moving to Manchester to complete his PhD
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Born in England in 1906, Woolley’s family moved to South Africa when he was fifteen.
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Mount Stromlo was one of three government-run facilities that the gunsights.
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To enhance Australia's defence capability by building industrial capability in sensor and on-board data processing for drones and small satellites.
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