Used for Astronomy classes and a wide variety of short-term and long-term undergraduate student/faculty projects in Optical and Radio Astronomy. Typically 6-10 student projects in progress at any given time. Also used for public outreach in Astronomy, either on-site or via video streaming to the Planetarium.
Equipment
Optical Observatory
- 0.4-m Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope
- 0.5-m Ritchey-Chrétien Telescope
- Several 8-inch Dobsonian telescopes for first-year astronomy lab and outreach
- 5-inch wide-field imaging telescope
- Several high-precision CCD cameras
- Fiber-fed echelle spectrograph
- Portable telescopes for visual viewing
- Low-light video camera system (a node of the Lowell Observatory Cameras for Meteor Surveillance)
- 11-inch astrophotography telescope with color video imager
Radio Observatory
- Three-node Dipole Array Telescope (DART)
- 15-meter HERA test dish
- 4-meter dish
- Quad-Yagi steerable hydrogen antenna
- 5-element meteor scatter antenna
- Various wire antennas
- Many high-sensitivity radio receivers
- Small electronics workshop
Lab Information
Location: R2 and surrounding area
Contact Us: To speak to someone about this lab or any of our facilities, call us at 928-777-6600 or 800-888-3728, or email Prescott@erau.edu.
Lab Director: Dr. Noel Richardson