tiabunna's photos with the keyword: Siding Springs

The view to the south east of the AAO telescope (see previous images) shows signs of the huge fires that ravaged the area in 2013. Over 56,000 hectares were burnt, up to and including the tree stump to the right of this image. The telescope dome was less than ten metres behind me when I took this .... it was very fortunate (and a lot of effort from fire services) that it was not destroyed. View large. Explored.

This wider view gives some idea of the size of the dome for the 3.9 metre AAO telescope (see earlier images).