Astronomical Observatory
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Perched on the top of University Peak, and overlooking the bustling student activity below, UANT Observatory is one of the finest of its kind in the world.
The Observatory
operates a testing
facility for future space probes, is equipped with a wide range
of state of the art instrumentation for imaging, and spectroscopy,
and sees in visible light, infrared, ultraviolet and x-ray bands.
| Date | Show Time |
Program Title | UANT Observatory Telescope Observing Begins | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
May 8th |
20:00 |
Moon Mineralogy Mapper (Anders Hovgaard) |
21:00 |
Saturn and Venus revisited |
|
May 15th |
20:00 |
Black Holes (Hans Gruber) |
21:00 |
Messier 53 Globular Cluster |
|
May 22nd |
20:00 |
Cosmic Collisions |
21:00 |
Messier 3 Globular Cluster, First Quarter Moon in Virgo |
|
May 29th |
20:00 |
Mars Revealed |
21:00 |
Full Moon Rising in Sagittarius |
|
June. 6th |
20:00 |
DAWN Mission to Asteroid Belt (Slavomir Leskov) |
21:00 |
Messier 13 in Hercules |
|
June. 13th |
20:00 |
The Milky Way: City of Stars |
21:00 |
A Spectacular Jupiter |
|
June. 20th |
20:00 |
The'Apollo Moon Hoax' Hoax (Dave Moss) |
21:00 |
Beautiful Antares and Jupiter in Scorpius |
|
June. 27th |
20:00 |
Searching for Distant Worlds |
21:00 |
Bright Arcturus in Bootes |
The Southern Cross (left) as seen from UANT Observatory
To sign up and use the UANT Observatory, go here.
Other observatories on Antarctica:
Antarctic Submillimeter Telescope, Harvard University