Lake Tekapo’s spectacular, unpolluted night skies attract visitors from all over the world. UC’s Physics and Astronomy Department’s astronomical observatory on top of Mt John, near Lake Tekapo, provides outstanding conditions for observations and discoveries of the southern sky.
At the Observatory
Nigel Frost
Resident Superintendent
Technician
Mt John University Observatory PO Box 56, Lake Tekapo 7945Phone: +6436806005
Internal Phone: 2705
Mobile: 027 680 3491
Observers at Mt John
Telephone: +64 (03) 680 6002
At UC – Department of Physics and Astronomy
Karen Pollard
Director, Mt John Observatory
Associate Professor
Beatrice Tinsley 416
Phone: +6433695816
Internal Phone: 95816