New Campus 0.6-m Telescope

On February 22, 2020 a new 0.61-m telescope was installed in the campus observatory on the top of the Eyring Science Center.  This is a new state-of-the-art PlaneWave CDK24 telescope.  It is currently in the process of being commissioned to make it a fully robotic system.  This telescope will support undergraduate student research, the observational astronomy class (Phscs 329), and potentially the descriptive astronomy class (Phscs 127).  Early test targets will include transiting planet candidates from the NASA TESS satellite and pulsating variable stars.

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