Tzec Maun observatory (before 2010)
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This entry marks the earlier home of Tzec Maun Observatory in Western Australia, before the facility moved to its current South Australia location.
About this site
The Tzec Maun Observatory relocated before 2010 to the site it now occupies in South Australia. Specific operational details of this earlier Western Australia location are not well documented publicly.
Location & getting there
The former site is recorded in Western Australia, Australia. Use the map and directions button on this page for its coordinates, though the working observatory now operates from its newer South Australia location.
Visiting
As a former, no-longer-active site, there is no current public visiting information for this location.
See your named star from here
Even a decommissioned observing site marks real coordinates under Australia's dark southern skies, the kind of setting from which a symbolically named star could once have been observed. Explore our star catalogue for stars named across Australia.
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