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Mountain Sky Observatory (MSO)
This project designed by Glenn Gaunt includes a 20-inch f/8.1 Ritchey–Chrétien telescope (RC Optical Systems), Paramount German Equatorial Mount (Software Bisque, Golden, Colorado), and STL-11000M ...
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Observatory Weather Radar
Current Water Vapor Map:
Radar is an acronym that stands for RAdio Detection And Ranging. Weather radar feeds are updated here on an hourly basis during the day and night; uploaded forecast data are a...
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All Sky Camera
The All Sky horizon-to-horizon camera makes extended, unattended, and continuous coverage of the sky possible; a concept important to remotely operated observatories. This allows monitoring of the c...
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Observatory construction, Spring 2012
Construction of the Mountain Sky Observatory, also known as the Gene Augusto Moonrise Project, began in the Spring of 2012. A suitable site was located at an altitude of 9,950 feet above sea level o...
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Adaptive Optics
Adaptive optics technology is used to improve performance of our telescope by reducing the effect of wavefront distortions caused by atmospheric disturbances.
When light from a star enters the Earth...
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Supernovae Project
A supernova...
...is a stellar explosion that is extremely luminous and causes a burst of radiation that often briefly outshines an entire galaxy, before fading from view over several weeks or months....