Facilities
Our centre operates world-class facilities and collaborates with observatories and gravitational wave detectors that have a long history of research and technical activity at the forefront of astronomy and astrophysics.
The ANU 2.3m Telescope was built in the early 1980s and was automated in 2023.
The Applied Metrology Group operates out of two main laboratories.
The centre has a purpose built laboratory for experimental work, located at the western end of building 38b on the main campus of ANU.
Ion beam sputtering coating deposition facility for precision optics production hosted at ANU for ANFF
SkyMapper is a state-of-the-art automated wide-field survey telescope that represents a new vehicle for scientific discovery.