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Mees Observatory Tours: done for the year

Location: 
C E Kenneth Mees Observatory, 6604 East Gannett Hill Road, Naples NY 14512 The observatory sits at the highest point of Ontario County, the top of Gannett Hill, about an hour's drive south of Rochester. See the Mees website for a map and full directions.
Date/Time: 
08/28/2010 - 8:00pm - 11:00pm

University of Rochester Department of Physics and Astronomy is pleased to offer free tours for the public at Mees Observatory in the Bristol Hills during the summer months. Tours begin at 8PM at Gannett House on the observatory grounds. After getting acquainted, we'll present a talk on astronomy in general and on what we may be observing later in the evening. If weather and skies permit, we'll proceed to the observatory dome and operate the 24" reflecting telescope to observe the Moon, planets, double stars, nebulae, star clusters, and maybe even a galaxy or two. Tours typically end around 11PM (if observing is possible) or whenever our guests have had their fill of photons.

Tour guides are physics/astronomy students and members of our club.

Use the "more info" link below to go to the Mees Tour website, see the Tour Calendar and to make a reservation for your tour.

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Directions: 

See the "more info" link.

Phone: 
CONTACT TOURS DIRECTOR CAROL LATTA AT 230-9548