Telescopes
APT
The Automated Patrol Telescope (APT) is a wide-field (5º x 5º) imaging telescope, operated by the University of New South Wales at Siding Spring Observatory at Coonabarabran, NSW Australia. It is currently being used to search for transiting extrasolar planets.

ROTSE-IIIa
ROTSE-IIIa is a fully automated 0.45-m robotic reflecting telescope used to detect gamma-ray bursts, located at Siding Spring Observatory.

MOPRA
Mopra is a 22-m diameter millimetre-wave telescope near Siding Spring Observatory, the largest in the Southern hemisphere and the fourth largest in the world. UNSW extended the dish to this diameter, and in collabaration with the CSIRO operate the telescope for millimetre observations. It is used principally for the study of molecular clouds and star formation in our Galaxy.

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