On shOw - Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery
On shOw - Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery
On shOw - Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery
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Southern Skies:<br />
Astronomy in Tasmania<br />
Situated in the QVMAG Planetarium foyer, the<br />
exhibition presents the story of Tasmanian astronomy<br />
<strong>and</strong> features many telescopes <strong>and</strong> other pieces of<br />
equipment (some quite unusual) that have been used<br />
for research in the State.<br />
See a Skylark rocket used by Tasmanians to study<br />
X-rays from space, as well as Tasmania’s largest<br />
amateur-built optical telescope, <strong>and</strong> a telescope that<br />
can’t swing left or right … is it jammed? No, <strong>and</strong> find<br />
out why. Also featured is a machine that detected<br />
muons—particles that live for only a few millionths of<br />
a second—<strong>and</strong> how it showed that Einstein was right.<br />
You can learn the story of a man who built the world’s<br />
largest filled-aperture radio telescope in Tasmania.<br />
Amazing astronomical stories to tell, all within the<br />
Southern Skies: Astronomy in Tasmania exhibition.<br />
when ongoing<br />
where QVMAG, Inveresk<br />
Admission free<br />
Presented by QVMAG<br />
Top Astronomical Society of Tasmania members at an observing site in 1998.<br />
QVMAG acknowledges the<br />
generous sponsorship support of
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