Observatory
The observatory has reopened for Open Houses in the Fall 2009 semester. The complete Fall-2009 open house schedule is here.
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Robinson Observatory is located near 28° 35' 30.2" N, 81° 11' 26.2" W. At the Cassegrain focus of the 20-inch telescope is a STL-6303E camera from Santa Barbara Instruments Group that houses a KAF-6303E 3072-by-2048 pixel CCD. With our current setup, the pixel scale is 0.458 arcsec and our field of view is 23.4-by-15.6 arcmin. Typical seeing is 2 to 4 arcseconds at our site. Standard Johnson-Cousins BVRI filters are used with the camera. We are in the process of commissioning an SGS spectrograph (also from SBIG) for use at the telescope as well. Science topics that are currently being or will be investigated at RO include: • Rotation periods of binary asteroids. • Long-term dust-production behavior of comets. • Photometric monitoring of variable stars. • Exoplanet transits. |
In addition to the research that is done at Robinson Observatory, we also hold open houses regularly. During these open houses we invite the public as well as students to come view the skies. More information including dates and times can be found on our schedule page. There is also a UCF astronomy club which facilitates groups such as girl scouts and special tours. The club can be reached at ucfastroclub @ gmail.com.
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