Bays Mountain Park Observatories

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Bays Mountain Park is the home of two observatory structures housing a number of telescopic instruments.  The smaller "roll-off" observatory was first opened around 1980.  The "domed" observatory was completed in 1989 and was constructed by club members and park staff.  

The current roster of instruments includes...

A custom 8" refractor owned by Milligan College. 

A 12 Meade Schmidt-Cassegrain on a computer controlled mount.

A large aperture Coulter 17" reflector on an alt-azimuth Dobsonian style mount

A 6" Meade APO refractor mounted on a portable alt-azimuth tripod mount.

A superb Newtonian 10" reflector with optics by our own Jerry Lappin. 

The Bays Mountain Astronomy Club and planetarium staff use all of these telescopes at various times to show the public astronomical sights in both the daytime and nighttime skies.

Telescope Installation
Click here to see the 8" Milligan telescope
being first installed in 1999!

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