3–11 Jul 2025
University of Adelaide
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Ten things you didn't know about astronomy in South Australia

7 Jul 2025, 11:45
15m
Scott Theatre (University of Adelaide)

Scott Theatre

University of Adelaide

Oral Plenary

Speaker

Philip Edwards (CSIRO Space and Astronomy)

Description

NSW has Siding Spring, Murriyang, and the Australia Telescope Compact Array, WA has the MWA, ASKAP, and SKA-Low, Queensland has the Mount Kent Observatory, Victoria has the Stawell Underground Physics Lab, Tasmania had Grote Reber's Square Kilometer Array and has several other radio-telescopes, and the NT has the Katherine AuScope antenna -- can SA offer anything astronomical? Yes it can! This presentation will describe ten things you didn't know about astronomy in SA -- including events, achievements, and people.

Author

Philip Edwards (CSIRO Space and Astronomy)

Presentation materials