Astronomy Observations

The advanced astronomy course, Phys 304: Observational Astronomy, makes use of some advanced astronomical instruments to make observations of the skies. The instruments we have available include:

Telescopes:

• 6 Celestron C8-S Schmidt-Cassegrain telescopes on CG-5 equatorial mounts, plus 4 new Advanced VX go-to mounts
• a Meade LX 90 8″Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope
• 6 Optronics Skyline 6″ Dobsonians
• several older telescopes including a 3.5″ Questar

M8, the Lagoon Nebula, taken 9/17/2007 at Merrill Creek Reservoir by the Physics 304 class

Instruments:

• Four QHY268M photometric QMOS cameras with filter wheels