Coonabarabran, NSW and Warrumbungles
October 11th 2008 Our final stop was Coonabarabran, the Astronomy Capital of Australia. The town is the closest town to the 3.9 m Anglo-Australian Telescope, the largest optical telescope in Australia, on Siding Spring Mountain. The observatory is at the centre of a magnificant Virtual Solar System drive. The virtual solar system is a scaled model of our Solar System that's 38 million times smaller than outer spac
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