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The Monash University Observatory: equipment and research

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

J. L. Innis ,
K. Thompson  and
D. W. Coates
J. L. Innis
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Monash University, Wellington Road, Clayton, Australia
K. Thompson
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Monash University, Wellington Road, Clayton, Australia
D. W. Coates
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Monash University, Wellington Road, Clayton, Australia

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The Monash Observatory, located at Mount Burnett, Victoria, seventy kilometres east of the city of Melbourne, at a latitude of 38° S has a 0.45-m Cassegrainian and a 0.25-m Newtonian telescope. Both are equipped for photoelectric photometry, with microcomputer-based data logging systems. The 0.45-m has recently replaced the observatory's original 0.4-m Newtonian. Our site is near the coast, and has less than 20% photometric weather. Access to the telescopes and facilities of Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories (MSSSO) increases our observing time and the scope of our research. For a description of the Monash Observatory at mid-1984 see Coates et al, (1984).

Type
II. Photometric Research Programmes
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 118: Instrumentation and Research Programmes for Small Telescopes , 1986 , pp. 293 - 294
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1986 

References

Coates, D.W., Thompson, K., Innis, J.L. and Moon, T.T., 1984. In Advances in Photoelectric Photometry Vol. 2, p. 74, eds. Wolpert, R.C., and Genet, R.M., Fairborn, Ohio.Google Scholar
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