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The last upload was August 2025.
Spitzer Space Telescope Launch from NASA on The Commons uploaded August 2025
Launch of Fermi Telescope from NASA on The Commons uploaded June 2025
Launch of the James Webb Space Telescope from NASA on The Commons uploaded December 2024
GLAST Spacecraft Launch from NASA on The Commons uploaded June 2023
Telescope with a basket to catch the stars? from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded April 2023
Early mobile phones but no Social Media from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded March 2023
Hubble Views a Cosmic Cloud from NASA on The Commons uploaded December 2022
Station Airy from National Library of Medicine uploaded September 2022
Dr W. E. McFarlane, medical doctor and astronomer from State Library of Queensland uploaded July 2020
Night sky viewing for members of the Astronomical Society of Queensland from State Library of Queensland uploaded July 2020
Irvinebank Observatory ca. 1910 from State Library of Queensland uploaded July 2020
Experiments at Wickham Terrace Observatory from State Library of Queensland uploaded July 2020
Home made telescope mounted on a drum from State Library of Queensland uploaded July 2020
Setting up a telescope in preparation for an eclipse, Stanthorpe, 1922 from State Library of Queensland uploaded July 2020
Home made telescope from State Library of Queensland uploaded July 2020
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[Seven unidentified officers and soldiers in Union uniforms and one officer identified as Major Charles S. Cotter of 1st Ohio Light Artillery Regiment, with telescope, at Point Lookout, Tennessee] (LOC)
- Andrei Goncharik said:
Night sky viewing for members of the Astronomical Society of Queensland
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Vesna Verencevic said:
Before the events that would spawn the original AAQ in 1969, the Astronomical Society of Queensland (ASQ) was the only major Queensland astronomical body in Queensland, having existed since 1927. Following the advent of the space age in late 1957, the membership of the ASQ had been growing quite rapidly with a burgeoning public interest in all things space-related. Included on the periphery of these new members were the dreamy and disconnected ‘flying saucer set’ who was the subject of some quiet amusement for some of the younger members such as my friend Peter Smith and myself. The political affiliations of these new members must have raised some concerns because several years later the long-time Secretary Bill Newell told me confidentially that one of our new members was an ASIO agent checking us out! He built a fine 6-inch telescope at night classes (which can be seen in the 1961 TV photo with Bill Newell), but dropped out after a few years. Source: www.aaq.org.au/asq-18-telescope-project-and-the-bundaberg...
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Vesna Verencevic said:
What more could you ask for? Mysteries of the Universe
Queen's College, Observatory, Cork
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oaktree_brian_1976 said:
Well it was "new" in 1880, if that helps. books.google.ca/books?id=cRw4AAAAMAAJ&lpg=PA659&o...
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O Mac said:
NIAH website tell us it was built between 1875 and 1885 yet sign over the door reads 1880!! No civil engineering building! The NIAH says the then Chemistry and Physics labs were built 1905-1915 while the Dictionary of Irish Architects records show the labs built 1909-1911. Even before the labs were built I think we ought to be able to see the Carrigside and/or Edler Wood terraces on College Road. They were built---again according to NIAH---in 1880's . Terraceview So I think taken around 1880/85 when it was brand spanking new.! Gullgle
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Sharon Corbet said:
25" OSI map showing the observatory with the same path layout. No civil engineering building/physics and chemistry labs. Carrigside Terrace is there, but there is an empty space where Elder Wood should be.
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B-59 said:
The observatory has a wikipedia entry as well: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crawford_Observatory About the sponsor, William Horatio Crawford (1815 - 1888) s. library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections/view/1160/william...
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beachcomber australia said:
... and the wiki links to this Quite Interesting article - www.astronomytrail.ie/crawford/history/