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Welcome to USQ Mt Kent Observatory
Mt Kent Observatory is a facility for astronomy teaching, research and
outreach.The Observatory is at a dark-sky site located about 30km southwest
of Toowoomba and its three domes each house a telescope. In addition to the
telescopes, the Mt Kent site houses the Educational Development Group (EDG)
building with a lecture room, accommodation facilities and a control room for
indoor operation of the observatory telescopes. A weather station is also
located on the Observatory grounds. A high speed data link from the Observatory
to the USQ campus has been installed for remote operation of the robotic
telescope.
Mount Kent's Weather Condition
Following images are the latest Rain Radar and Satellite Imagery from Bureau
of Meteorology, Australia. Marburg Rain Radar map is sampled every 10 minutes
and received approximately 4 minutes after the sampling. In brief, the delay is
about 4 to 14 minutes. The scanning of coloured infrared satellite image takes
approximately 30 minutes to complete and the image is generally available
within 30 minutes of completion. Thus, the minimum delay in satellite image
is about one hour and the maximum is 2 hours. Energex's Lightning Tracker are
delayed approximately 15 minutes. The timestamp for Energex Lightning Tracker
is in local time. For radar map and Satellite image, the timestamp is in
UTC/GMT format. The current UTC and local time are shown as follow:
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