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Widener Observatory

 

39° 51' 44" N        75° 21' 30" W

The observatory is located on the 5th floor of the new addition to Kirkbride hall.  Room number is 503.
Room 502 is the control room for the observatory, room 501 is a multimedia classroom.


Instruction manuals and presentations

Pictures of the dome being lifted onto the building

Pictures of the building, dome, and observing decks

Pictures of the support structure for the scope

Pictures of the telescope, weather station, dome control

First image captured

Image galleries

Projects

Equipment list for the observatory


Public observing

No Night without a Telescope


Current Weather at the Observatory



If the sticker above is updating every few seconds Rapid Fire is active, click here for a larger sticker with more data.

Text file with weather data for the last 36 hours.
Text file with weather data for the last week.
Yearly Archived Weather Data.



For cloud cover, transparency, and seeing: Blue is good, White is bad.




 


Last update: 10/19/2009
Marty Schultz
schultz at pop1 dot science dot widener dot edu

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