Mount Stromlo Fire, January 18, 2003

ANU page about the fire, including information about where to send donations.

• AUSLIG 1-m Laser ranging facility (2-m facility under construction) - gone
  
• 9-inch Oddie refractor (constructed 1889, relocated 1911, recently used by Canberra Astronomical Society) - gone
  
• 26-inch Yale Columbia refractor (constructed 1925, relocated 1952, formerly used by Virginia Parallax Program 1977-1992, then as facility for Red Belly Black Cafe) - dome melted, lens cracked - gone
  
• 50-inch Great Melbourne Telescope (more history) (just started Stromlo Southern Sky Survey, formerly used by MACHO project) - gone
  
• 30-inch Reynolds Telescope (1925) (used by MACHO team and Reynolds Amateur Photometry Team) - steel dome intact, but interior gutted
  
• Uppsala dome (originally the home of Uppsala Schmidt 1957-1982, then used by Canberra Astronomical Society to house an 14-inch Dobsonian and 6-inch reflector) - gone
  
• 74-inch (1955)- steel dome intact, but contents gutted.
  
• Director's Residence (1926)- gone
  
• Original administration building including two small domes housing 6-inch Farnham refractor (constructed 1886, relocated 1926) and 18-inch solar telescope (1931) and library- gone
  
• Workshops (including Gemini North NIFS spectrograph - A$4M) - gone
  
• Visitor's Centre including Red Belly Black Cafe - little damage?
• Woolley (1995) and Duffield (1964) buildings (research and administration offices) - little damage (water damage)
  
  
  
• IPS space weather monitoring station at western base of Mt Stromlo - damaged, but expected to be operational when power and communications restored.