Michael Ashley (astronomer)

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

Antarctica and Dome C

Along with Jon Lawrence, Andrei Tokovinin and Tony Travouillon he published in September 2004 in Nature an article on the observation conditions in Antarctica. They came to the conclusion that the Dome C is ideal as a location of an observatory, since there was to be found on earth the clearest sky.