Add location of the Mount Burnett Observatory near Melbourne, Australia

[Chris Samuel]

Hi there,

I was wondering if it would be possible to add the location of the Mount Burnett Observatory to Stellarium?

Mount Burnett Observatory is a not-for-profit astronomical association to the south-east of Melbourne in Australia which took over the old Monash University observatory with its 18" and 10" telescopes and now has over 100 members from the local area and further afield.

http://mtburnettobservatory.org/

We are fortunate enough to have a trigonometrical station (trig point) a few metres from the dome and Geoscienes Australia have been kind enough to provide the data for it, the location information is:

Latitude 37 58 21.9526
Longitude 145 29 43.2950
AHD Height 307.6m

AHD is the "Australian Height Datum" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Height_Datum

All the best,
Chris

[Chris Samuel (chris-csamuel)]

A quick correction - the lat/long provided by GA of course assumes Australia and so the latitude is actually south, so it should be:

Latitude -37 58 21.9526
Longitude 145 29 43.2950
AHD Height 307.6m

Apologies for any confusion. :-)

[Alexander Wolf (alexwolf)]

A fix has been committed as revision 6781 of the trunk branch in Stellarium's Bazaar repository at Launchpad:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~stellarium/stellarium/trunk/revision/6781

[Chris Samuel (chris-csamuel)]

I've just tested the daily build from the PPA and confirm that it finds MBO in the database and sets the location.

Thank you so much!