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Mt Stromlo was severely damaged by the firestorm of 18 January 2003. The Farnham was the only telescope to survive the January 2003 firestorm intact, and it has since been used as a public outreach telescope.
At Siding Spring, the Australian National University operates its research telescopes, and hosts those of other institutions.
Anglo-Australian Telescope »
The Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT), which was opened in 1974 by HRH Prince Charles, is operated by ANU.
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...
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...
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...
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...
74-inch Reflector »
As the site’s largest and most advanced telescope, the 74-inch reflector was the Observatory’s primary research instrument throughout its lifetime.
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 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...
Farnham Telescope »
The 6-inch Farnham telescope was built in 1886 and donated to the Commonwealth by the estate of Lord Farnham in 1907. It was installed in 1928 in the original...
Great Melbourne Telescope »
This reflector was originally built for the Melbourne Observatory in 1868 for visual (look and sketch) observations. In the 1990s the reflector joined the...
Heliostat »
The Heliostat (or Sun Telescope) was completed in 1931 it became the site’s primary research instrument.
Reynolds Reflector »
The 30-inch Reynolds telescope was the first reflecting telescope on Mount Stromlo and the largest operational telescope in the Southern Hemisphere until the...
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).
The Oddie Refractor »
The Oddie Telescope was donated to the Commonwealth in 1909, and established at Stromlo in 1911.
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.
Uppsala-Schmidt Telescope »
Built in 1955, this dome housed a 20/26-inch Schmidt telescope under the operation of Sweden's University of Uppsala.
