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Watch this space! A major milestone today!!! We just signed up for the new museum shed to house our meteorite and space displays! The site is marked out ready to go as well.

Also a number of you have suggest we try crowd funding to go towards the museum. Any funds we do get allow us to divert funding to do things better, add the research telescope sooner and most importantly, offer better tours to all of you! As soon as it is live, I will share the link. ... See more

Firstly, keep those logo ideas coming! Remember to get them in by the 20th Sept!!! You may have noticed lots of updates and links etc as the page undergoes some improvements and preparation for our new observatory site. Also, in response to the requests, there will soon be a crowdfunding page for our meteorite and space museum!

Lastly, it is on again! The community sky night at CSU Orange. Discussions today as well on doing a similar event in Bathurst early next year!!!! ... See more

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Bathurst Observatory is in the process of moving to a new location. All facilities are currently being rebuilt.
Your Contribution of any amount will go towards:
$1000 for the crane, $5500 for the Observatory Foundations and Telescope Pier, $3500 for the Public Viewing Area.
Support for Bathurst Observatory is much appreciated!
https://bathurstobservatory.com.au/donate.html ... See more

Support for Bathurst Observatory is much appreciated! Bathurst Observatory is in the process of moving to a new location. All facilities are currently being rebuilt. Your Contribution of any amount will go towards: $1000 for the crane, $5500 for the Observatory Foundations and Telescope Pier, $3500.... ... See more

We need a logo, so I thought it would be an opportunity to give you all the chance to submit your creative ideas! The best design, will not only become our new logo, but I will award them this iron meteorite as a reward! (A real rock from space!)

I guess a few guidelines are needed.
- It has to be original (your own work)
- A logo is a simple graphic design that captures the essence of what we do and represent
- It could somehow capture the region as well
- Uses our motto "sharing the sky"
- Be able to be printed as a letter head, T-shirt etc

Please send your logo idea via messenger by the 20th September 2019. I will post up to three I like on the page for a final public vote! Then the best will become our logo and the artist will get this meteorite! ... See more

The Eagle Nebula! Famous for the "pillars of creation", towers of gas and dust in this star forming nebula.
We spent the weekend doing more site work in preparation for the main imaging telescope. A couple of more weeks to go before we can pour the slab! I still promise some images of it all pegged out once we do more of the prep work! ... See more

The Omega Centauri globular star cluster (NGC5139), a mouthful to say, but a real highlight of the southern sky this time of year.

Pegging out commences over the weekend on the new facilities!!! That marks out their exact positions on the ground ready for site work. I will post some pics! ... See more

Plans for the new museum have been drawn up! (Thank you Bathurst Sheds). We are still a bit over budget with no grants forthcoming. I am hopeful there is a sponsor out there to be found, particularly for this building. We had planned to do some more clearing and prep work on the telescope sites today, but as you can see it is pretty cold and snowy out there. ... See more

Though I don't have my main imaging telescope operational again as yet, I used my trusty 35 year old telescope to image the Moon on the 5th August. Though not quite as good as the main scope, I am still pretty happy with the results tonight at our new observatory site. ... See more