Historical & Cultural Astronomy / Golden Years of Australian Radio Astronomy; .

Foreword                                                                                                                                        

Preface

 

1   Introduction - From Radar to Radio Astronomy

References

 

2   Frontier Life at the Field Stations

     2.1   Introduction

     2.2   Dover Heights

     2.3   Georges Heights

     2.4   Hornsby Valley

     2.5   Bankstown Aerodrome

     2.6   Potts Hill

     2.7   Penrith

     2.8   Dapto     2.9   Badgery's Creek



     2.10  Fleurs

     2.11  Murraybank

References

 

3   Exploring the Neighbourhood - the Sun, the Moon and Jupiter

     3.1   The Sun

Prof Wayne Orchiston works at the National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand and is an Adjunct Professor in the Astrophysics Group at the University of Southern Queensland (USQ) in Toowoomba, Australia. Previously, he worked in academic and government astronomy posts in Australia and New Zealand. Wayne has a special interest in the history of astronomy, and through Western Sydney University, James Cook University (Townsville, Australia) and USQ has supervised the research of more than 30 PhD and Masters theses. He has published papers about early radio astronomy (in Australia, France, India, Japan, New Zealand and the USA); the history of cometary astronomy and meteoritics; historic transits of Venus and solar eclipses; early developments in astrophysics; historic telescopes and observatories; and ethnoastronomy. His recent books include Eclipses, Transits and Comets of the Nineteenth Century: How America's Perception of the Sky Changed (Springer, 2015, co-authored by Stella Cottam), Exploring the History of New Zealand Astronomy: Trials, Tribulations, Telescopes and Transits (Springer, 2016), John Tebbutt: Rebuilding and Strengthening the Foundations of Australian Astronomy (Springer, 2017) and The Emergence of Astrophysics in Asia: Opening a New Window on the Universe (Springer, 2017, co-edited by Tsuko Nakamura). Currently Wayne is the President of IAU Commission C3 (History of Astronomy), and in 2003 he founded the IAU Working Group on Historic Radio Astronomy. In 1998 he and John Perdrix launched the Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, and he is the current Editor. Wayne is also a Co-Editor of Springer's Historical & Cultural Astronomy Series. In 2013, the IAU named minor planet 48471 Orchiston after him.

Dr Peter Robertson is an honorary research fellow in the School of Physics, University of Melbourne. He spent most of his career as managing editor of the Australian Journal of Physics, published by CSIRO Australia and the