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Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. James Packer’s Crown Sydney will fund a 360-degree visitor experience at Sydney Observatory under a $600,000 agreement that has ...
The shortest day of the year is approaching – here's everything you need to know about the winter solstice in Sydney.
Built in 1858, Sydney Observatory – which sits up on top of the hill at Millers Point in Sydney city – gained international recognition under Henry Chamberlain Russell, the government ...
A solar panel unusually placed on the ground within metres of the historic Sydney Observatory weather station (white box), behind a locked gate on January 24. Asked if the BOM was confident that ...
In just the first nine months of this year, Sydney Observatory Hill, which measures rain in the NSW capital, received 2,100 mm of rain, around 175% of the average, according to CNN Meteorologists.
Observations of the dew point – the temperature in which air must be cooled to produce dew – at the Sydney Observatory Hill weather station revealed it peaked at 26C at 12.40pm Thursday ...
A new exhibition, ‘I Put The Stars On The Ground’ at Sydney Observatory, highlights First Nations custodianship to Sky Country and showcases a newly-restored public space. The exhibition, which is on ...
Even today, the telescope in the top tower is one of the best in world, according to our guide Dr. Henry Woodruff, who conducted the first German language tour at the observatory.