Location Henrietta, New York Rolloff building telescope 14-inch f/10 Celestron Phone +1 585-475-2538 | Established 1992 (1992) Altitude 168 m Code 920 | |
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Website www.rit.edu/cos/observatory Dome building telescope 12-inch Meade Schmidt-Cassegrain Address 645 John St, Rochester, NY 14623, USA Organization Rochester Institute of Technology Similar Chester F Carlson Center for, National Technical Institute f, Monroe Community College, Barnes & Noble, Park Point | ||
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Rochester Institute of Technology Observatory is a small astronomical observatory owned and operated by Rochester Institute of Technology. It is located in Henrietta, New York (USA).
The observatory is primarily used to teach undergraduate astronomy labs, although some research relating to cataclysmic variables and asteroid occultations also takes place.
There are one telescope dome and one roll-off shed on the premises, both housing telescopes. RIT owns a 12" Meade telescope, a 16" telescope, and several smaller refracting telescopes. In addition, a two-element radio interferometer based on the SIMPLE design is being constructed and will be used as a teaching instrument to expose students in astronomy labs to observations at other wavelengths.