Scientists have spent more than a thousand nights at the Siding Spring Observatory in an effort to map the composition of hundreds of thousands of stars in the skies above western New South Wales.

After a stellar 50 years as one of the country’s major scientific assets, the Anglo-Australian Telescope continues to play a major role in keeping Australian astronomy on the world stage.

is Astronomer-in-Charge of the Anglo-Australian Observatory (AAO) at Siding Spring near Coonabarabran, NSW. He is responsible for managing the scientific productivity of Australia's largest ...