Molonglo: then and now Dick Hunstead University of Sydney.

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Molonglo: then and now Dick Hunstead University of Sydney

In the beginning…

Construction begins…

East-west arm complete…

The official opening: 19 Nov 1965

The N-S sweated labour camp

Control room in the 1960s

The exciting 60s … 1963: discovery of quasars

The exciting 60s … 1965: discovery of the cosmic microwave background

The exciting 60s … 1967: discovery of pulsars

Discovery of the Vela pulsar Large, Vaughan & Mills 1968

Accurate position measurements Hunstead 1971, 1972: optical & radio

The unexpected: low frequency variability

Low frequency variable: 3C454.3

3C411 (z = 0.47): highest-z RG in 1975

Second Molonglo pulsar survey 1978 Manchester et al 1978: 155 new pulsars

Molonglo Reference Catalogue 408 MHz sources S>0.95 Jy Dec -85 o to o |b|>3 o

Molonglo southern 4 Jy sample (MS4)

From Molonglo Cross to MOST

Supernova 1987A

Jupiter-SL9 comet crash: July 1994

GRO J : the brightest X-ray binary Hard X-ray MOST radio Black hole eats star

THE END

… here’s to the future!