Motivation
The 19th of November 2005 marked the 40th anniversary of telescope operation at Molonglo. To celebrate this we held a 1 day symposium at the University of Sydney, followed by a BBQ on site at Molonglo. The focus of the day was science highlights from the last 40 years, as well as future instruments and science.
Talks from the Symposium are available below - click on the talk titles in the list of speakers below.
Photos from the two days:
- Symposium attendees (Credit - Shaun Amy)
- Bernie Mills cutting the cake (Credit - Bill Tango)
- Plaque presented by Gary Nairn MP (Credit - Adrian Blake)
Scientific Program
The list of speakers is shown below.
Session 1: Molonglo history Chair: Andrew Hopkins
- Anne Green Introduction and Welcome
- Dick Hunstead The Molonglo Observatory: then and now
- Hugh Murdoch The first digital survey from Molonglo
- Gordon Robertson Radio source surveys and cosmology
- Jim Caswell The Galactic legacy
- David Crawford The Molonglo Virtual Telescope
Session 2: Current research Chair: Daniel Mitchell
- Elaine Sadler The Sydney University Molonglo Sky Survey
- Tom Mauch 6dF/SUMSS
- Lewis Ball SN1987A
- Ilana Klamer Steep spectrum radio galaxies at high redshift
Session 3: Future research Chair: Tara Murphy
- Anne Green SKAMP: Progress and prospects
- Duncan Campbell-Wilson Engineering challenges
- Daniel Mitchell RFI mitigation
- Stefan Keller SkyMapper: an optical complement
- Adrian Blake Molonglo - the last few years
Organising Committee
- Andrew Hopkins
- Daniel Mitchell
- Tara Murphy
- Anne Green
- Dick Hunstead
- Bruce McAdam
For more information contact Dick Hunstead