Tour Moore Observatory Virtually

The primary mission of most observatories in the Louisville region is education, enjoyment, and outreach; research is for them a secondary mission at most. However, there is one observatory in the Louisville region whose primary mission is research: the University of Louisville’s Moore Observatory, located in Oldham County. It is not generally open to visitors, but you can visit it virtually, through Moore Observatory’s web page (click here for the web page).

Your assignment is to tour Moore Observatory virtually. Check out all the telescopes there. These include:

· A 24-inch Ritchie Chretien telescope

· A 20-inch Corrected Dall Kirkham telescope

· The Azari Telescope and the Roll Roof facility

· The TEC APO visitor’s telescope

There are extensive photo pages for certain ones of these telescopes and for other aspects of the observatory.

Explore the observatory virtually and find what interests you. Your task is to discuss what you learned, what you found interesting, and why. Do not repeat extensive details from the Moore web page; those are already available for anyone who wants to know them. The subject of your discussion is your interests. Find interesting photographs from the observatory web page. Include them in your discussion (copy from the web page and paste them into your discussion). Choose eight photos—not more, not less. Discuss each photograph and why you chose that photograph. Your entire discussion must have a minimum length of 1200 words.

Note that Moore has connections with facilities in other locations: Mt. Lemmon, Mt. Kent, etc. Ignore those. This project is to tour and discuss the Oldham County facilities only.

This project does not count as an “observatory visit” B Project because no observing of the real sky takes place in this project. It is a regular B Project.

What to turn in:

· Your discussion and eight photographs.