Michael Ashley

Michael CB Ashley is an Australian astronomer . He is a professor at the School of Physics at the University of New South Wales , in Sydney , where he is particularly committed to an observation station on Dome C in Antarctica.

Antarctica and Dome C

Together with Jon Lawrence , Andrei Tokovinin and Tony Travouillon , he published an article in Nature in September 2004 about the observation conditions in Antarctica. They came to the conclusion that Dome C is ideal as an observatory location because it is where the clearest sky on earth can be found.

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Individual evidence

↑ Jon Lawrence, Michael Ashley, Andrei Tokovinin, Tony Travouillon: Exceptional astronomical seeing conditions above Dome C in Antarctica . In: Nature . 431, No. 7006, Sept. 16 2004, pp. 278-81. bibcode : 2004Natur.431..278L . doi : 10.1038 / nature02929 . PMID 15372024 . Retrieved June 30, 2009.

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SURNAME	Ashley, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ashley, Michael CB
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Australian astronomer
DATE OF BIRTH	20th century

[Nature1-1] Jon Lawrence, Michael Ashley, Andrei Tokovinin, Tony Travouillon: Exceptional astronomical seeing conditions above Dome C in Antarctica . In: Nature . 431, No. 7006, Sept. 16 2004, pp. 278-81. bibcode : 2004Natur.431..278L . doi : 10.1038 / nature02929 . PMID 15372024 . Retrieved June 30, 2009.