P005044 revised AU-VU:EOAS Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation

All key entry types: Awards; Concepts; Corporate Bodies (Organisations); Cultural Artefacts; People; etc

These key entries are listed separately below with other indexes and lists.

 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Corporate Body created 2012-04-16 human Ailie Smith updated 2025-01-17 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P005044b.htm corporateBody CSIRO Solar Observatory AACR2 22 September 1967 1987 Start Place Culgoora, New South Wales, Australia The CSIRO Solar Observatory was opened 22 September 1967. The observatory featured a radioheliograph for observing the sun. The CSIRO decided to close the observatory and despite attempts for it to be transferred to the University of Sydney, it closed in 1987. Smerd, Stefan Friedrich (1916 - 1978)

Director 1971 - 1978

Trove

 'CSIRO Solar Observatory', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology CSIRO Solar Observatory Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation CSIRO Solar Observatory, Culgara, NSW - Records Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science CSIRO Solar Observatory, Culgara, NSW - Records MS 167 1966 - 1988 File 'Official Opening and Subsequent Publicity' of the CSIRO Solar Observatory, including press releases, proceedings, photographs, articles and publicity. Second file 'Negotiations Concerning Transfer of Observatory to the University of Sydney', including documents and letters from various correspondents. 0.03 m, 2 files Ronald Gordon Giovanelli - Records Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science Ronald Gordon Giovanelli - Records MS 176 1910 - 1987 A collection of 18 series of records covering personal and biographical materials 1910-85; publications, draft manuscripts and working papers 1952-85; correspondence, photographs and draft manuscripts for "Secrets of the Sun" 1952-87; records regarding astronomical equipment and optics 1950s-79; CSIRO reports, correspondence and working papers 1942-78; records of scientific societies and conferences 1940-85; subject files and observational data dealing with eclipses, solar variability and terrestrial phenomena, heat transfer, magnetic fields, sunspot cycle and solar magnetic cycle, and excitation and ionization of solar atoms 1950s-80s; lecture notes 1960s-70s; photographs and slides 1950s-80s; audio-visual materials 1968-87 [3.48 m, MS 176]. A detailed guide to the collection is available from the Australian Science Archives Project. 3.48 m Audio, Film, Photographs, Video Ralph Edwin Loughhead - Records Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science Ralph Edwin Loughhead - Records MS 201 1965 - 1998 Biographical information, selected scientific correspondence, reports and reviews of the Solar Physics Group, photos relating to the CSIRO Solar Observatory, reports on overseas trip, published papers and other notes. 0.6 m, 1 box John Paul Wild - Records Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science John Paul Wild - Records MS 136 1975 - 1980 Letters and other records on Interscan, a system for instrument landing of aircraft 1975-1980 [1 cm, MS 136]. 0.01 m Photographs