Siding Spring Observatory
Organization
Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:
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Article on the Siding Spring Observatory, 1956
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 37/1201
Scope and Contents
An article by Bart J. Bok on the 'Siding Spring Observatory', regarding the opening of the observatory.
Dates:
1956
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Correspondence on dust tests, 1969-06-02 - 1970-07-18
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 37/418
Scope and Contents
A copy of a letter from Redman to M.H. Jeffery, 2 June 1969, enclosing notes on dust collectors for Siding Spring, and Redman's correspondence with Hermann Wehner and P.M. Sydserff, 11 June 1969 - 18 July 1970, thanking them for dust samples, and discussing dust testing procedure, the assessment of dust tests, and the supply of plastic Petri dishes, including a quotation for the dishes from Griffin and George Ltd, 15 August 1969.
Dates:
1969-06-02 - 1970-07-18
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Correspondence on Gascoigne's memorandum, 1968-04-08 - 1968-04-19
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 37/444
Scope and Contents
A copy of a letter from Redman to M.H. Jeffery, 8 April 1968, regarding an accompanying copy of notes by S.C.B. Gascoigne on the Anglo-Australian Telescope optical system, dated 27 March 1968. Redman also discusses checking the figures in any final contract draft and mentions site 3A at Siding Spring Observatory. There is also a copy of a letter from Jeffery to F. Hoyle, 19 April 1968, regarding Gascoigne's memorandum on the Anglo-Australian Telescope optical system and referring to the...
Dates:
1968-04-08 - 1968-04-19
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Correspondence on Siding Spring Observatory, 1969-06-26 - 1969-07-25
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 37/479
Scope and Contents
Correspondence regarding the building design and layout at the Siding Spring Observatory, including Redman's correspondence with Hermann Wehner concerning the modified darkroom-layout, with a drawing, and also the dome layout, which Redman has discussed with R. Griffin, R.V. Willstrop and W. Sargent; a letter from M.H. Jeffery enclosing a copy of Macdonald, Wagner and Priddle's report on mountain top development, 11 July 1969; a letter from Jeffery, 23 July 1969, referring to his visit to...
Dates:
1969-06-26 - 1969-07-25
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Correspondence on the A.A.T., 1972 - 1973
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 37/672
Scope and Contents
Notes on the Astronomical Working Party at Canberra; a visit to Siding Spring; and meetings of the Science Research Council Board in London, Newcastle and Cambridge.
Dates:
1972 - 1973
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Correspondence with Jeffery and Hindman, 1968-05-14 - 1968-07-03
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 37/400
Scope and Contents
Correspondence with M.H. Jeffery and J.V. Hindman regarding the Siding Spring wind records for April and May, new anemometers and recorders to be obtained, the geology of sites 3A and 7A, the increasing scepticism of astronomers on the value of seeing tests, and the death of Redman's secretary. Jeffery's letter of 18 June encloses graphs on wind speed
Dates:
1968-05-14 - 1968-07-03
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter from O.J. Eggen, 1968
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 37/405
Scope and Contents
A letter from O.J. Eggen, 1 November 1968, regarding the convening of a small committee to evaluate that data from site testing at Siding Spring. He encloses graphs on wind records, notes on Automatic Seeing Monitor calibration, and a comparison of methods of estimating astronomical seeing by A.R. Hogg, with graphs.
Dates:
1968
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter from R.J. Boyle, 1968-02
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 37/396
Scope and Contents
A copy of a letter from R.J. Boyle, Divisional Engineer, Television, Postmaster-General's Department, regarding investigating television interference to amplifiers at the Siding Spring Observatory.
Dates:
1968-02
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter from Vic Williamson, 1969-02-20
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 37/413
Scope and Contents
A letter from Vic Williamson providing an explanation of the dust samples taken in November and December 1968 and commenting on the completed report on observing conditions at the Siding Spring Observatory.
Dates:
1969-02-20
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letters from Redman, 1975-01-06 - 1975-01-08
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 37/359
Scope and Contents
Copies of letters from Redman to Miss Jean Melville, Sir Fred Hoyle and F. Graham Smith, Royal Greenwich Observatory, regarding Redman's report of his visit to the Siding Spring Observatory. Redman congratulates Hoyle on the award of a Royal Medal from the Royal Society. In a letter to F. Graham Smith, he expresses the opinion that J. Wampler should spend more time at the Siding Spring Observatory, and recommends Jack Rothwell as a member of the Northern Hemisphere Observatory Project...
Dates:
1975-01-06 - 1975-01-08
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letters to P.M. Sydserff, 1969-07-28 - 1970-08-28
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 37/419
Scope and Contents
Copies of two letters from Redman to P.M. Sydserff regarding discontinuing dust tests at Siding Spring after July, general conclusions and his final report.
Dates:
1969-07-28 - 1970-08-28
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Notes on the A.A.T., 1971
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 37/670
Scope and Contents
A notebook entitled 'Canberra 1971 June, Rodgers Committee etc. also PILOT, July 9, London', including Redman's notes on a visit he made to Siding Spring on 14 June 1971.
Dates:
1971
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Notes on the A.A.T., 1972
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 37/671
Scope and Contents
A notebook entitled 'Canberra - Siding Spring 1972 February', containing notes by Redman on a visit he made to Siding Spring and on the Astronomical Working Party.
Dates:
1972
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Photographs from Siding Spring Observatory, 1961 - 1973
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 37/1748
Scope and Contents
Twenty-eight photographs, one picture and one postcard of Siding Spring Observatory, the Anglo-Australian Telescope and related images.
Dates:
1961 - 1973
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Plan of Siding Spring Observatory, 1967
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 37/1494
Scope and Contents
Drawing No. 01-003-01, a plan of the Siding Spring Observatory.
Dates:
1967
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Plan of Siding Spring Observatory, 1967
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 37/1495
Scope and Contents
Drawing No. 01-003-02, a plan of the Siding Spring Observatory.
Dates:
1967
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Plans of Siding Spring, 1965
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 37/1490
Scope and Contents
A drawing of the site plan for the initial layout of the Siding Spring Observatory.
Dates:
1965
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).