Open Houses
The Drexel Physics Department hosts a Telescope Open
House on the first Wednesday of each month at 30 minutes past
sunset (for 2 hours).
Wednesday, April 12, 8-10pm
Status: Heads-up that it may be DREXEL COMMUNITY ONLY again this time (if Drexel ID is still being required for access to the Main Building). Please check back the week of April 10 for an update (and please note that this is entirely out of our control).
Next:
Wednesday, May 3, 8:30-10pm
Normally hope that these events can be open to the public (subject to Drexel's pandemic operation rules and access restrictions to the Main Building).
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 (typically) for the first Wednesday of every month during the academic year. Open houses start roughly 30 minutes after sunset, and run for two hours after that.
The Joseph R. Lynch Observatory has been made possible by the Generosity of Joseph R. Lynch '58 and the GE Foundation.