Talk:Sydney Observatory

A fact from Sydney Observatory appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 3 February 2006. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that from 1858 Sydneysiders could set their clocks by the ball dropped at 1 pm each day at the Sydney Observatory and that the observatory replaced Fort Philip which was never needed to be used for defending Sydney?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2006/February.

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Telescope size

At http://www.sydneyobservatory.com.au/about/aboutUs.asp it states: a historic 29cm lens telescope built in 1874, a 42cm computer controlled telescope and hydrogen-alpha solar telescope I will update the article accordingly. We are metric now but in inches 29 cm is approximately 12 inches. The anon changes to 11" from 16" are thus probably right.--Golden Wattle ^talk 23:33, 8 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Cleanup

Removing tag from 2008 about needing more citations. This has been fulfilled. I'm going to add some photos and some general cleanup over the next couple days.Sgerbic (talk) 10:15, 9 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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