School Director update

This month's Lunations reports on the 50th Anniversary Symposium of the AAT, SSO Open Day, and preparations for the final Mount Stromlo 100th anniversary celebrations as well as the RSAA review.

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School Manager update

The calendar year draws inexorably to a close and finance and HR submission dates stalk the offices like two giant stalking things.  Keep calm and don't panic. Mat will tell you how to conquer them.

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AITC iLAuNCH Trailblazer program and Rosella

As part of the wider ranging iLAuNCH Trailblazer program, our team here at Mount Stromlo has partnered with home-grown and international Industry groups to develop detector control technologies for Earth observation remote sensing.

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Research Byte

GASKAP-HI survey reveals new insights into the thermal properties of the neutral interstellar medium. In the RSAA Science Lunch, Hiep Nguyen, a member of the GASKAP team, presented the largest Galactic atomic hydrogen absorption survey to date, using the Australian SKA Pathfinder Telescope with an unprecedented spatial resolution of 30 arcsec.

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Siding Spring Observatory news

Read about Starfest and the symposium to celebrate the AAT's 50th Anniversary.  Also news this month, the 2.3-metre telescope primary mirror gets a shiny new coat and a new staff member arrives at SSO.

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IDEA Committee update

Employees are invited to participate in a mental health research study, while HDR scholarship equity extensions have been approved.

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