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The U.K. 48-inch (1.2 metre) Schmidt Telescope and the SRC IllaJ Survey
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 April 2016
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The U.K. Schmidt telescope is one of three independent ‘observatories’ now on Siding Spring Mountain near Coonabarabran, and is operated by the United Kingdom Science Research Council. The telescope has been fully operational since September 1973. So far we have taken about 800 astronomical plates, about half being for the main IllaJ Survey and half for other scientific programmes. The latter have mostly been taken when the moon or mediocre seeing have prevented us working on the Survey.
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- Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 2 , Issue 6 , October 1975 , pp. 323 - 324
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- Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1975
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