The site also hosts remote-controlled telescopes in three separate enclosings.
It is a non-profit research facility which also hosts one of the few privately owned radio telescopes in Australia.
The Small Radio Telescope (SRT) is owned and operated by Andrew Mattingly and Greg Ford of Sydney and operates at the 21 cm (1420Mhz) spin flip line of atomic hydrogen.
It is extensively used for southern hemisphere research by the Institute for Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics in Kiel, Germany.
[2] The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 30 January 2010 (M.P.C.