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Workers completing the construction of the Oddie telescope dome at Mount Stromlo, 1911.

A 9 inch refracting telescope by Grubb, Dublin, was donated in 1910 by James Oddie of Ballarat, to the Commonwealth Government, for the establishment of the Commonwealth Solar Observatory.

Melbourne Observatory astronomers Pietro Baracchi and James Baldwin used the telescope at Mount Stromlo from September 1911 to September 1912, to test the suitability of the site for the establishment of a permanent observatory.

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Construction of James Oddie telescope dome at Mount Stromlo Observatory, 1911 Builders

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