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18 March 2009

Hutton-Westfold Observatory
The observatory is located on the roof of Building 19 at the Clayton campus.

The Hutton-Westfold Observatory will officially open at the Clayton campus on Monday 23 March 2009.

The new teaching facility, jointly operated by the Schools of Physics and Mathematical Sciences, includes a 27 cm Celestron telescope, capable of detecting stars ten thousand times fainter than can be seen with the naked eye.

The observatory will be used extensively by undergraduate students of astrophysics, allowing them to process and analyse data in the same manner as professional astronomers.

The observatory is named in honour of the late Don Hutton and the late Kevin Westfold, who made great contributions to astronomy and student learning at Monash over the course of several decades.

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