Location: Cotter Road, Weston Creek, ACT
Country: Ngunnawal
LGA: Australian Capital Territory (ACT)
Region: Southern Tablelands
Website: https://www.anu.edu.au/about/campuses-facilities/mount-stromlo-observatory
The Australian National University’s Mount Stromlo Observatory (more >>), on the outskirts of Canberra, houses ANU’s Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics (RSAA), its many heritage telescopes, and several other facilities, including the Advanced Instrumentation and Technology Centre, MSATT Astronomy Teaching Facility, Canberra Astronomical Society, and the new Quantum Communication Ground Station.
You can explore these and the Observatory’s other astronomical installations on ANU’s Mount Stromlo Heritage Trail. You can also see the Nobel Prize medallion presented to ANU’s Distinguished Professor Brian Schmidt and his team in 2011. (See the Nobel press release here >>. And read Brian Schmidt’s Nobel lecture, The Path To Measuring An Accelerating Universe,’ here >>
Outer Space: Stromlo to the Stars, a Canberra Museum and Gallery online exhibition >>
Mount Stromlo Observatory hosts regular public astronomy nights with the Canberra Astronomical Society and has an active outreach program.
For more on European astronomy in Australia, see Graham, A. W., Kenyon, K. H., Bull, L. J., Lokuge Don, V. C., & Kuhlmann, K. (2021). History of Astronomy in Australia: Big-Impact Astronomy from World War II until the Lunar Landing (1945–1969). Galaxies, 9(2), 24. https://doi.org/10.3390/galaxies9020024
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You’ll find the turn-off to Mount Stromlo Observatory on Cotter Road, Weston Creek, ACT.
Post published 18 November 2024. Last revised 26 September 2025.
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