McKim Observatory still houses many of its original instruments, including a 9.53 inch Clark Refractor telescope, a meridian transit telescope, and a gravity driven chronograph. Missing from the early ...

The first observation using the Airy Transit Circle telescope, a device that functioned for over a hundred years, was taken ...

On June 5th in North and Central America, and June 6th in Asia, Australia, and most of Europe, the planet Venus will cross in front of the Sun. This will be only the eighth such transit of Venus since ...

McKim Observatory is an excellent example of a late 19th-century American observatory. Built in 1884, it retains much of its original equipment and remains largely untouched by modernization. Its ...

This month, the U.S. Naval Observatory’s Flagstaff Station will celebrate the 50th anniversary of its establishment as the USNO’s dark-sky observing site. This milestone will be marked by a public ...

When the famous Coggia's Comet flashed across the sky in 1874, a Missouri astronomer named Carr Waller Pritchett made a wish. A year later, that wish came true. Pritchett was hoping for the right ...

Gazing into Buffalo's night sky has its challenges, with substantial light pollution and moisture in the atmosphere generated from Lake Erie. But for students taking Descriptive Astronomy (Physics 121 ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This instrument consists of a plastic ...