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The day at Siding Spring

Feb 25th

@叶夜速写 | 280次浏览(views)

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Although I sleep at 2 a.m. last night, I woke up at 8 a.m. in the morning. It's already pretty sunshine outside. At 10 a.m. Rob came and guided me to the 3.9-m Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT). I'm very lucky because today they are going to remove the 16-t mirrow for maintanence, which occurs only once a year. The procedure will take a whole day to complete so we only checks at some important time. By the way -- the 3.9-m AAT is also the largest telescope I have ever seen.

After short checks on the AAT, we went to see the 1.2-m UK Schmidt, visit the observatory shops and have lunch, have a great chat with the assistance (she's not a professional but an astronomer -- it's still pretty nice to me the way she works, although not a professional one). After that we went back to the AAT, and the 16-t, 3.9-m giant had just been removed, and we watch it was put onto the ground floor. After that we still visit the 1.0-m and the 2.3-m AAT telescope (it marked the second biggest I had ever seen), and see the in-built Sky Mapper dome in distance.

The weather became very clear today (last night it wasn't, but Rob still show me the software and facility of Siding Spring Survey). At sunset, quite a number of kangeroos went out and ate grass, and we observed a nice sunset at just outside the dome of the 3.9-m.

[[Image:Other/080225a.jpg|550|In the 3.9-m AAT dome -- the telescope is too large to be include in this photo]]

AAT, Australian trip, Siding Spring

Siding Spring, here I come!

Feb 24th

@叶夜速写 | 285次浏览(views)

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I've began my last expedition in Australia today -- visit one of the Holy Lands for astronomer, the Siding Spring Observatory.

I board the train to Gunnedah on Strathfield at a quarter past ten, but the train was not quite convenient, it produced much noise and was late for one hour (yep the reasons are broken trains ahead, cow acrossing ahead and held for signal to give way).

Rob and Donna were waiting me on the platform, then I have dinner with them. After that, exactly at sunset time, we departed from Gunnedah for Coonabarabran, "the astronomical capital of Australia", and then for Siding Spring.

Extraodinary is the only word to describe the scenery along the way.

We took about two hours to arrive Coonabarabran and then Siding Spring. The observatory is surround by kangeroos. I spot at least a dozen around the observatory. Rob showed me around the Uppsala Dome and then guide me to the lodge. I found an female astronomer sitting there enjoying Harry Potter DVD, and Rob and I have a great chat with her on the wizard story.

Scientist still prefer things like Harry Poter should you know.

Australia tour, Coonabarabran, diary, Gunnedah, Robert McNaught, Siding Spring
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