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35:17:42.58 North Latitude; 35.295161111
107 meters Elevation
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The campus observatory is utilized by students and faculty and is open to the public for rare special events that will be advertised here when appropriate and announced through our facebook page (Join Astronomy@ATU on facebook).
The observatory courtyard is adjacent to McEver Hall on campus (map) in Russellville.
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Central Arkansas Astronomical Society (CAAS) River Ridge Observatory
Whispering Pine Observatories (WPO)
Arkansas-Oklahoma Astronomical Society (AOAS)
Mid-States Region Astronomical League (MSRAL)
American Association of Variable Star Observers AAVSO
Center for Backyard Astrophysics - CBA Arkansas
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Image Gallery
Campus Observatory (Clarke 16-inch reflector)
Robotic Research Telescope (River Ridge Observatory)
(Above)1994 Solar Eclipse Where forest canopy projects solar images from "pinhole"
cameras made by dozens of interlaced leaves above. (Below) 2017 Total Solar Eclipse
timelapse of onlookers.
Transit of exoplanet WASP-52b across its parent star.
An eclipse of cataclysmic variable binary star system UU Aquarius.
Amateur-Professional collaboration characterizing a newly discovered binary system.
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A project involving follow-up observations of NEO-PHAs (Near Earth Object-Potentially Hazardous Asteroids) to help us avoid the fate of the dinosaurs.
Where's the Asteroid?
(MPL2007TU24_080129)
(MPL2006NM060919)
(MPL23183_060125), wait for the frost on the CCD window to evaporate!
Star field with cataclysmic variable star FS Auriga and our newly discovered eclipsing
binary (2007 AJ, 133, 1944,
2011 AJ, 141, 124). Try and find the cataclysmic variable, its accretion disk puts out lots of UV lightmaking
it appear as an extremely blue star right of center.
Observations of a galaxy before and after one of its star's went supernova.The light
from the supernova almost outshines the galaxy of several billion stars itself.
Eclipses imbedded in superhumps of cataclysmic variable WZ Sagittea during a 2001
superoutburst monitoring campaign with the Center for Backyard Astrophysics CBA, (2002 PASP 114, 721).
WIYN 3.5-meter telescope color image of Helix galaxy and mystery minor planet interloper
(0.4 arcsec seeing).
Observations of outbursts, superoutburst and superhumps in cataclysmic variable V1159 Orionis over its ~45 day cycle (1999 ApJ, 521, 362)