Album info

  • Title: The First 100 Years
  • Description: This album contains photographs and images that survived or have been donated from private collections. Photographs and images that survived or have been donated from private collections. Most of the site images prior to 1990 were taken by Stromlo photographers Vince Hunt or Keith Smith. Other photographers are noted where known. Captions will appear in due course. If you can identify times or people, your input will be appreciated. Note: some of the nested albums that started out in this album have been moved to the "Stromlo Reconstruction" album.

    NOTE: All images and movies are copyright and must not be reproduced or mirrored in any form without written permission.

The First 100 Years

  • Tractor - 1925

    • Duffield collection
    • Views: 8917

  • Aerial photo from a glass plate, dated Nov 1939

    • Mt Stromlo Observatory - General views
    • Views: 79336

  • Oddie - 1980s

    • The 9" Oddie refractor, 188?-2003
    • Views: 31448

  • Stibbs

    • The Commonwealth Solar Observatory building a…
    • Views: 37281

  • Heliostat - 1994

    • The Commonwealth Solar Telescope
    • Views: 10326

  • Farnham telescope right ascension (RA)

    • The 6" Farnham refractor
    • Views: 10478

  • Don Thomas works with electronics, 1955

    • Workshops and computer labs
    • Views: 22806

  • Reynolds fitted with a spectrograph designed by Dr Heinz Gollnow and built at Stromlo, early 1950s

    • The 30" Reynolds reflector, 1917-2003
    • Views: 21744

  • GMT rebuild

    • The 50" Great Melbourne Telescope, 1868-…
    • Views: 55986