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Originally Posted by bkm2304
Hi Ian,
Good old Mayfield! With the perpetual sodium vapour dawn to the north and north east it is a challenge to actually see some nights.
Richard
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Nice scope -very inspirational.
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Originally Posted by Ian Robinson
I used to live in Woodstock Street , (my dad build single handedly the houses at 109 and 107 when he returned after WWII, including making the concrete bricks to build them) about 200m from the Industrial Hw when I was growing up.
Do you know that one of the first actual observatories in Australia was built just north of the Bull Street Bush (up on Mayfield West Hill) ?
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I too grew up in the Mayfield area. Vine St infact.
Learned my early astronomy under the lights (and gasses) of the BHP and other industries.
Had to stop frequently as the steam from the coke ovens cleared.
