Stromlo: An Australian observatory
Allen & Unwin, $35 pb, 378 pp
Science and Technology
Giant Light Buckets
by Robyn Williams •
In 1972, at the start of my career as a science journalist, I was asked to produce the Commonwealth Day documentary, a portrait of the spectacular Anglo Australian Telescope being built on Siding Spring Mountain. Together with the Australian National University, an independent board was driving the telescope project. I set off to Canberra to interview the infamous Olin Eggen, then director of Mount Stromlo.
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Stromlo: An Australian observatory
by Tom Frame and Don Faulkner
Allen & Unwin, $35 pb, 378 pp
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