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The O’Mara Telescope is named after the late Mt Kent Observatory pioneer Dr Jim O’Mara (of the University of Queensland). It is a robotic telescope with 30 cm (12 in) Meade optics and a CCD camera, and is housed in an octagonal enclosure designed by Jim O’Mara. It automatically serves remote imaging requests from USQ students.
The SkyPoint Observation Deck is located on level 77 and 78 of the Q1 building. [ 3 ] [ 8 ] It features a museum, weather station, theatrette and lounge bar across two levels. [ 3 ] It is Australia's only beachside observation deck and has room enough for 400 people. [ 9 ]
Reedy Creek Observatory (obs. code: 428) is an astronomical observatory the location for observations of near-Earth objects by John Broughton, an Australian amateur astronomer. [1] The observatory is located in Reedy Creek, a suburb of Gold Coast, Queensland, at 66 metres (217 ft) above sea level.
It was previously thought that the highest temperature in Australia was 53.1 °C (127.6 °F) in Cloncurry, Queensland, on 16 January 1889. This record has been removed by the Bureau of Meteorology though as it was measured using a non-standard temperature screen. It is believed that the temperature that day was most likely about 47 °C (117 °F).
Crohamhurst Observatory on its opening day, 1935. Crohamhurst Observatory was constructed in 1935 on Inigo Owen Jones' property Crohamhurst, near Peachester.It was built for use by Jones as the site of solar and planetary observations and weather measurements used in long-range weather forecasting, and as the headquarters of his forecasting service.
However, observations in 2024 show a declining trend in maximum snow depth within the past 70 years, with a downward tendency of about 0.4–0.6 cm per year since 1954. This is a result of increasing temperatures and decreasing cold frontal precipitation in winter, mostly caused by increases in worldwide greenhouse gas emissions, which drives ...
The Australian monsoon can also have a high influence on rainfall on the southeastern seaboard during the warmer months, such as in southeast Queensland and as well as the northern half of New South Wales (Northern Rivers to metropolitan Sydney), where summer is the wettest season and winter is the driest (the precipitation contrast between the ...
The 2010–2011 La Niña system broke many rainfall records in Australia, particularly in the states of Queensland and New South Wales, with extensive flooding and major damage to infrastructure and crops. The central east area of Queensland, an area the size of Germany and France combined, was under water in 2010–11. La Nina related flooding ...