Stardome Observatory

Stardome Observatory IAU observatory code 467, formerly called Auckland Observatory is a public astronomical observatory situated in Cornwall Park in New Zealand's largest city, Auckland. Founded in 1967, the observatory is administered through the Auckland Observatory and Planetarium Trust Board. The Trust Board changed into created by the Auckland Astronomical Society AAS in 1956. The Stardome Observatory is also domestic to the AAS. In 1969, the observatory then known as Auckland Observatory constructed a UBV photoelectric photometer with help from the University of Auckland. This photometer at the Zeiss telescope became a completely a hit device and produced a large number of posted studies papers.

Probably the maximum critical discovery turned into the phenomenon of "brilliant-humps" in the SU Ursae Majoris elegance of cataclysmic binary stars in 1974. In 1988, the observatory participated in the discovery of the environment of Pluto by measuring the brightness trade as the planet handed in the front of a star. During the Nineteen Eighties the Zeiss telescope was used to assist several doctoral students from the University of Auckland most considerably Roger Freeth, inclusive of the development of a new computer-managed photon counting photometer. Regular UBV photometry of stars persevered until 1998 when a CCD digicam became first used.