CC sent us this great view of our City:
Fog rising off the city from Mt Stromlo, also revealing Telstra Tower.

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Rioter John sent us these scans in case anyone was interested.
Found an olde Canberra aerial postcard in a family collection. National Library construction indicates 1967-maybe 1968?
Also I have an old Mt Stromlo postcard for the same treatment if possible.
Thanks John!

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The ANU has announced they’re getting $500,000 in Commonwealth moneys to rebuild the old director’s residence at Mount Stromlo:
Perched on top of Canberra’s Mount Stromlo, keeping watch on the city below, the Director’s Residence was long regarded as one of the finest examples of federation architecture in Canberra.
When the firestorm of January 2003 ravaged [...]

Where’d the month go? It’s already time for the next public viewing night up on the mountain.
Plenty of us members of the Canberra Astronomical Society will be up there with our telescopes. And Saturn plus a new moon will make for great viewing if the weather cooperates. There will be professional astronomers from the ANU [...]

The Economic Development Directorate has confirmed there is asbestos up on Mount Stromlo and they’re working on cleaning it up:
Air, soil and water testing has been conducted and the ACT Government is awaiting the results of these tests. The small amount of material discovered on the trail has been confirmed as asbestos.
All visual fragments of [...]

The Centenary folk have the happy news that popular demand has seen the bushfires exhibition at Mount Stromlo extended:
Past Present Future – the poignant exhibition commemorating the 10th anniversary of the 2003 ACT bushfires – has been extended until Easter Monday due to an overwhelming response from the public.
The exhibition, in the reconstructed Mount [...]

Martyo went up Mount Stromlo on Friday night and sent in these pictures.

You can check out more of his work on Flickr.

[ 18 January, 2013 to 18 February, 2013. ]

With the 10th anniversary of the 2003 bushfires tomorrow there’s a lot happening on top of Mount Stromlo.

The Centenary of Canberra in 2013 coincides with the ten year anniversary of the 2003 bushfires that devastated Canberra.

Scope Mount Stromlo is hosting an exhibition from January 18 2013 that will commemorate the destruction, recovery and renewal of [...]

 
One of the great benefits flowing from the $30 annual membership fee of the Canberra Astronomical Society is that you also get free use of the society’s 350mm (14″) telescope up on top of Mount Stromlo. A scope worth more than $10,000, with some gorgeous Nagler eyepieces, in an observatory with a roll-off roof. For [...]

This just in and worthy of your attention:
Grab your optical tools and get outdoors!!
Scope at Mt Stromlo is looking for big, beautiful and unique images of the Weston Creek and Cotter Region to be part of Past Present Future – 10 Year Bushfire Anniversary Exhibition.
Emphasis is placed on the present: how our community has [...]

[ 6 June, 2012; ]

Thanks to skidbladnir for the tip. Scope Mount Stromlo are advising that you can safely view Wednesday’s last-chance-to see transit of Venus with them:

On the 6th of June 2012, the planet Venus will pass directly in front of our sun and will be visible in Australia from 8:15am until 2:45pm.

The transit of Venus became [...]

ACT Parks and Conservation Service is planning to undertake a Hazard Reduction Burn tomorrow, Friday 24 February 2012, weather permitting.
The burn will commence at approximately 12:00am at Stromlo Forest Park.
One heavy tanker, one compressed air foam system (CAFS), one light unit, 1 command vehicle and fifteen personnel will conduct the burn covering a total area [...]

Andy has sent in a pile of pictures from the Stromlo Running Festival with this note:
The Stromlo Running Festival was held from the 17th to the 19th of February and featured, oddly enough – a lot of running.
Because of some links to the Canberra running fraternity, I decided to attend the start of the Injinji [...]

Martin was up at the old observatory over the weekend for the Stromlo open day and took this stunning picture of the burnt out dome.
Got an image of Canberra you want to share with the world? Email it to images@the-riotact.com .

Andrew Barr has announced he’s opened the new “The Playground” series of tracks at Stromlo Forest:
Today I joined program partners Capital Hotel Group, TREK, Onya Bike, cre8ive, Makin Trax and Canberra Off-Road Cyclists and Mountain bikers Ben Henderson and Ben Cory to officially open a new 2 kilometre test track known as The Playground.
The $60,000 [...]

The ESA is giving notice that they’re doing a large hazard reduction tomorrow at Mount Stromlo.
So don’t panic.

After many years we have opened a funky fresh unique cafe and function area at Mount Stromlo.
Mick and Simone are the operators and were part of the Red Belly Black team many years ago before the fires came through in 2003.
The Mountain is looking great with growth returned and the burnt out telescope domes dotted [...]

Pommy Bastard has sent in this picture of blackberry pickers at Mount Stromlo.
Got an image of Canberra you want to share with the world? Email it to images@the-riotact.com .

Chief Minister Stanhope is thrilled to bits by ANU’s big announcement today about teaming up with the Smithsonian to run a space museum at Mount Stromlo.
“I warmly welcome the news that the ANU and the Smithsonian will join forces to build a national space science museum at Canberra’s Mount Stromlo Observatory,” Mr Stanhope said.
“It is [...]

Anyone who’s done the tourist trail in Washington DC knows the National Air and Space Museum (part of The Smithsonian) is one of the coolest places on earth.
So it’s very exciting to see ANU announce they’ve signed up with that august body:
The signing of an agreement overnight in Washington DC between the Smithsonian’s National [...]

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We don’t know how we missed the “Uninats” being held for unicycles in Canberra this year.
Fortunately YouTube brings the highlights of the one-wheeled outrages to public decency. Fortunately it doesn’t look like they’ll be breeding.