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The Australian National University’s Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics (RSAA) operates its research telescopes, and hosts those of other institutions at this spectacular location next to the picturesque Warrumbungle National Park. You can learn more about the various telescopes and organisations that own and run them on this page.
Anglo-Australian Telescope »
The Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT), which was opened in 1974 by HRH Prince Charles, is operated by ANU.
ANU 16 inch Boller & Chivens Telescope »
The ANU 16inch Telescope, purchased from Boller & Chivens, was operational soon after the 40 inch Telescope (circa 1965). Its building was designed with...
ANU 2.3m Telescope »
The ANU 2.3m Telescope was built in the early 1980s, at the initiative of the then director, Don Mathewson. The entire project was managed by the observatory...
ANU 24 inch Boller & Chivens Telescope »
After the first two telescopes (the ANU 40 inch and 16 inch telescopes) were completed at Siding Spring Observatory, a third telescope, a 24 inch reflector was...
ANU 40 inch Boller & Chivens Telescope »
The ANU 40inch Telescope was the first telescope constructed at SSO and was designed for photography or photoelectric work. It took only 13 months to build and...
bRING Project »
The bRing experiment ("β Pic b Ring") consists of twin two-camera instruments, which will monitor the bright star β Pictoris throughout 2017 and 2018...
Faulkes Telescope South »
The Faulkes Telescope South is a Ritchey Chretien telescope that was designed and built in the United Kingdom and is now operated by the Las Cumbres...
Huntsman Telescope »
The Huntsman Telescope is designed to take extremely faint images of astronomical objects in the Southern sky and is made up from an array of Canon telephoto...
iTelescope.Net »
The iTelescope.Net facility at Siding Spring Observatory is the southern hemispheric station of a global network of small to medium sized robotic telescopes...
KMTNet »
The KMTNet aims primarily to discover extrasolar planets based on the analyses of gravitational microlensing phenomena, especially the detection of earth-mass...
Project Solaris »
Owned and operated by the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center in Torun, Poland, a branch of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the Solaris Telescope is a 20...
Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment (ROTSE) »
The primary goal of the ROTSE project was to achieve observations in optical light of the massive deep-space explosions called gamma-ray bursts (GRBs).
SkyMapper telescope »
SkyMapper is a state-of-the-art automated wide-field survey telescope that represents a new vehicle for scientific discovery. It is sited under the dark skies...
The HAT-South Project »
HAT-South is a project to search for transiting extrasolar planets in the Southern Hemisphere. It uses a network of wide-field telescopes to monitor hundreds...
UNC PROMPT »
UNC PROMPT (Panchromatic Robotic Optical Monitoring and Polarimetry Telescopes), from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is made up of a number...
United Kingdom Schmidt Telescope (UKST) »
The UKST is a survey telescope with an aperture of 1.2 metres and a very wide-angle field of view. The considerably wider field of view of the Schmidt optical...
UNSW Automated Patrol Telescope (APT) »
Operated by the University of New South Wales (UNSW), the Automated Patrol Telescope (APT) is a wide-field CCD imaging telescope. The 0.5m telescope has a 5...
Uppsala 0.5m Schmidt Near Earth Object Survey Telescope »
Built in 1956 at the Uppsala Observatory workshop in Sweden, the Uppsala telescope was first located at Mount Stromlo Observatory (MSO) in 1957.
