| Canopus Hill Observatory | |||||
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| Organization | University of Tasmania | ||||
| Location | Mount Canopus near Hobart, Tasmania, Australia | ||||
| Altitude | 260 m (850 ft) | ||||
| Established | 1970s | ||||
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The Canopus Hill Observatory is an optical astronomy observatory belonging to the University of Tasmania (UTAS), It is located approximately 12 km from Hobart in Tasmania, Australia and is a host of Canopus 1 m telescope. On the site there is also a 16" telescope used by the Astronomical Society of Tasmania for photographic work and for public viewing during observatory open nights.
The expanding city of Hobart provides a high level of light-pollution making the astronomical observations very hard. This is the reason the observatory will be soon closed. Some instruments from current 1 m telescope, like fiber-fed Coude spectrograph and SITe 512x512 pixel CCD camera, will be moved to the newly constructed UTAS observatory at Bisdee Tier.