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

  • CSO Cellar - 1927

    • Duffield collection
    • Views: 12348

  • April 1984

    • Mt Stromlo Observatory - General views
    • Views: 142115

  • The newly-constructed Oddie Dome, 1911

    • The 9" Oddie refractor, 188?-2003
    • Views: 51674

  • CSO

    • The Commonwealth Solar Observatory building a…
    • Views: 66401

  • Heliostat

    • The Commonwealth Solar Telescope
    • Views: 13812

  • Farnham telescope drive

    • The 6" Farnham refractor
    • Views: 13564

  • Mechanical shop, 1944

    • Workshops and computer labs
    • Views: 37363

  • John Burr with an early photoelectric photometer, early 1950s

    • The 30" Reynolds reflector, 1917-2003
    • Views: 34319

  • 1955

    • The 50" Great Melbourne Telescope, 1868-…
    • Views: 96298