Siding Spring Survey [SEP] named after
Siding Spring Survey
The Siding Spring Survey (SSS) was a near-Earth object search program that used the 0.5 metres Uppsala Southern Schmidt Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, New South Wales, Australia. It was the southern hemisphere counterpart of the Catalina Sky Survey (CSS) located in the Santa Catalina Mountains on Mount Bigelow, near Tucson, Arizona, USA. The survey was the only professional search for dangerous asteroids being made in the Southern Hemisphere.
SSS was jointly operated by the University of Arizona and the Australian
by the Siding Spring Survey to conduct the only professional search for dangerous asteroids being made in the Southern Hemisphere. 
The telescope was decommissioned by the ANU late in 2013 and the Siding Spring Survey near-Earth object search program closed down after funding dried up.
Discoveries.
The telescope was used by Robert H. McNaught to discover 400 potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroids which have a diameter greater than . McNaught used the telescope to discover comet C/2006 P1, also known as the Great Daylight Comet of 2007, on the