Next open house: Wednesday, 1 October 2008 -
postponed to October 2nd
Monthly times are now posted
Named in honor of our benefactor, Mr. Joseph Lynch, the Lynch Observatory at Drexel houses a 16" Meade Schmidt-Cassegrain, the largest in Philadelphia. It is the main facility for Drexel's Physics 232: Observational Astrophysics, and serves host to frequent public observing nights.
Public open nights are scheduled for the first Wednesday of every month. Open houses start roughly 30 minutes after sunset, and run for two hours after that.
For reference, we have the "Sky Calendars" available for both 2007 and 2008. You can use these to check the local siderial time, sunrise, sunset and moonrise times for our exact location.
If you have any further questions about the observatory, feel free to contact Observatory Directors Dr.'s David Goldberg and Gordon Richards or the Observatory Monkey, John Parejko.
The Joseph R. Lynch Observatory has been made possible by the Generosity of Joseph R. Lynch '58 and the GE Foundation.
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