[sllug-members]: OT: Observatory above Farmington

[Jacob Albretsen]

On Saturday 11 July 2009, Dave Smith wrote:
> This is off topic, but I can't think of a better group to answer this
> question. I have long admired from a distance the observatories atop the
> mountains east of Farmington and Lagoon. Does anyone know if they have a
> name, and if they offer tours? Google doesn't seem to know about them,
> or perhaps I don't know how to Google.

Those are not observatories.  Those are radio towers.  I've been up there 
before, not that exciting.  Although the view is great.

BYU has an observatory on West Mountain west of Utah Lake, but they do not 
give tours.

http://wmo.byu.edu/

The planetarium at BYU does tours of the observatory on campus:

http://planetarium.byu.edu/

Weber state has a fair amount of telescopes they use for public shows:

http://community.weber.edu/planetarium/

The University of Utah has a dome on campus, but I'm not sure what they do 
with it, if anything.  They are also currently funding a telescope that is 
being built southern utah-ish.  I don't know too many details on that, but I'm 
told it is supposed to be automated and will focus on IR observations.

-- 
Jacob Albretsen
jakea at xmission.com
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