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Originally Posted by kinetic
Does anyone in the know about all things Stromlo, know what the story is
behind this truss assembly/ remnant, lying over in the grass?
Steve
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Hi Steve, this is the truss tube and upper assembly from the 50" Telescope, the Great Melbourne Telescope c1868 Grubb. It is not the original component, the original upper tube was a steel lattice construction.
It was modified at Stromlo quite a long time later to the configuration in your picture. This assembly was the third configuration of the scope. (the second was an enclosed tube)
This is what it looked like before the fires: