AAP General News (Australia)
01-10-2001
NSW: New imager expands the night sky view
SYDNEY, Jan 10 AAP - Astronomers at a major observatory in western New South Wales
can now see thousands more stars than ever before when they point their telescopes to
the skies.
Thanks to a new $1.3-million wide field imager unveiled yesterday, astronomers at the
Anglo-Australian Observatory (AAL) near Coonabarabran can look at huge expanses of night
sky through a single telescope.
The new imager, funded by the federal government and universities in Australia and
overseas, far outstrips previous methods of using photographic plates to image the …
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