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MEMORANDUM
Unlike the primary telescopes at Mount Cuba, the 16-inch computerized Meade Cassegrain reflecting telescope on Widener University’s main campus allows students and the public to look directly at the stars and planets it’s trained on.
Cuba, the 16-inch computerized Meade Cassegrain reflecting telescope on Widener University’s main campus allows students
and the public to look directly at the stars and planets it’s trained on. “We try to view
a sampling of stellar, planetary and galactic activities depending on the time of year,” says Harry Augensen, who’s retired from active teaching at Widener but still coordinates observatory activities. “We can see deep into the sky—objects such as blue and gold double stars. Like a restaurant has a menu, we serve up a selection of stars.”
Widener’s public viewing nights generally draw 20-25 people. After a lecture, guests look through the eyepiece of the scope, which was installed in 2005. “If the group is small enough, we allow them to take photos with their cell phones,” Augensen says, pointing out that research is limited to work on variable stars due to the ambient light of Widener’s urban campus.
Lancaster’s Brandywine Astronomical Society also hosts special events in more rural settings. For Friday Night Lights, the group gets together with other astronomical societies to party and stargaze at ChesLen Preserve near Unionville. “It’s dark enough that you can see a lot of things in the sky,” he says, “even with the naked eye.”
Visit mountcuba.org, delastro.org and widener.edu.
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