Professor Penny Sackett, Director of Mount Stromlo Observatory making an emotional visit to inspect the ruins on Mount Stromlo on the day following the disastrous fire, [January 2003] [picture] / Jeff Cutting
- Bib ID:
- 3516740
- Format:
- Picture
- Author:
- Cutting, Jeff, 1945-
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Description:
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- 2003
- 1 photograph : col. ; image 18.5 x 27.5 cm., on sheet 21 x 29.8 cm.
- Series:
- Cutting, Jeff, 1945- Blood red noon, photography of the Brindabella & southern ACT fires of January 2003.
- Summary:
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"Mount Stromlo Observatory at 1400 hrs, 19:01:03. I had heard that there was considerable damage to the Mount Stromlo Observatory, almost beyond belief, so I drove up there and got a clearance from the security person at the new roadblock. There I met up with the new Director of Mount Stromlo Observatory Professor Penny Sackett on site with some of her senior staff and was told of the appalling losses on the mountain including the export project destroyed in the Instrument Workshops which she showed me after which I took her photograph. The damage to the observatory was catastrophic in it's entirety and in detail with the loss of the following historically important telescopes: the 74 inch "Grubb-Parsons" Reflector; the 50 inch "Great Melbourne" telescope; the 30 inch "Reynolds" Reflector; the 9 inch "Oddie" Refractor and the 26 inch "Yale-Columbia" Refractor. Added to this was the loss of the Observatory Library with the Archives, the Administrative Building, the Instrument Workshops and eight staff houses."--Note from the photographer.
- Notes:
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- Title from caption list supplied by the photographer, see file NLA04/564.
- Part of the collection: A blood red noon, photography of the Brindabella & southern ACT fires of January 2003.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-149597684
- Source of Acquisition:
- Purchased 2005.
- Subject:
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- Sackett, Penny D -- Photographs
- Mount Stromlo Observatory -- Photographs
- Forest fires -- Australian Capital Territory -- Mount Stromlo -- Photographs
- Wildfires -- Australian Capital Territory -- Mount Stromlo -- Photographs
- Natural disasters -- Australian Capital Territory -- Mount Stromlo -- Photographs
- Ruined buildings -- Australian Capital Territory -- Mount Stromlo -- Photographs
- Astronomical observatories -- Australian Capital Territory -- Mount Stromlo -- Photographs
- Mount Stromlo (A.C.T.) -- Photographs
- Other authors/contributors:
- Cutting, Jeff, 1945-
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