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Summer Milky Way Over West Virginia, Matt Deiterich Wins Astronomy Magazine Picture of the Day September 16, 2016
Congratulations Matt! More on Matt’s work here .
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Respectfully submitted, Kathy DeSantis.
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(Milky Way, Mingo Observatory September 24, 2016 Photo Credit Len Marracini)*
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Allegheny Observatory Open House, Friday, October 7, 2016
Allegheny Observatory: Source: http://www.pitt.edu/~aobsvtry/
It is Annual Open House Tour time at Allegheny Observatory!
The tour is free and open to the public but reservations are required and limited in number. Members of the public who would like to attend the open house should telephone the observatory at 412-321-2400 between 1:00 pm and 5:00 pm. Monday through Friday.
AAAP members who would like to volunteer should email Lou Coban as outlined in AAAP’s September Guide Star Newsletter. The AAAP has been helping out at the Allegheny Observatory Open House for at least half a century. Our members keep that tradition going by showing a strong by offering to set up scopes on the observatory’s front lawn and in other capacities.
The Allegheny Observatory, founded on February 15, 1859, is one of the world’s major astronomical research institutions. It is four miles north of the Golden Triangle (downtown Pittsburgh) atop Observatory Hill in Riverview Park. AO is part of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pittsburgh , eight miles away in Oakland. Originally dedicated to general public education, by 1867 the facility was [Read more…] about Allegheny Observatory Open House, Friday, October 7, 2016