Siding Spring is near Coonabarabran, New South Wales, Australia. It is the most important location for optical and infra-red astronomy on the Australian mainland, and hosts eleven telescopes.
They are the 3.9m Anglo-Australian telescope, the 2.3m ANU telescope, the UK Schmidt telescope, the ANU 40" telescope, the ANU 24" telescope, the ANU 16" telescope, the University of New South Wales Automated Patrol Telescope, the Uppsala telescope, the Korean 20" telescope, the ROTSE telescope and the new 1.3m ANU Skymapper telescope.
Within 10km of SSO is also the 24 metre Mopra radio telescope, the 20" Rose-Hulman observatory and the 14" Muhlenberg Observatory.
LCOGTLas Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network will be installing a 0.4m telescope at Siding Spring in 2009. The site will eventually accommodate further 0.4m’s and a 1m, as the LCOGT network expands.
Take a video tour of the LCOGT site at Siding Spring:
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Site Details
Airport Code:
COJLatitude:
-31.273300 decimal degrees
Latitude (D M S):
31° 16' 23.88''SLongitude:
149.070593 decimal degrees
Longitude (D M S):
149° 4' 14.1348''EElevation:
1116 metersElevation (feet):
3661 feet