MILL HILL OBSERVATORY

MILL HILL OBSERVATORY

ATRIP TO THE OBSERVATORY

In February 2007 The Society for Popular Astronomy had a visit to Mill Hill Observatory. I was very lucky to be part of the visiting group.

We had a tour of the facilities and shown an episode from a DVD called Hubble 15 years of discovery. This is available from

SPACE TELESCOPE ORG

We began our visit with a look at the Radcliffe 60/45-cm refractor. This is fitted with a large format CCD camera

Here we can see the CCD camera and guiding unit

We then continued our tour with a visit to the Fry refractor, this is a superb 20-cm refractor built by the celebrated firm of Thomas Cooke and Sons it is extremely well suited for planetary and solar viewing.

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We all had a very interesting time and for me it went to quick. The University of London run many astronomy related courses and you can contact the Admissions Tutor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCL Gower Street London WC1E 6BT Tel: 02076797246 Email physastro-admissions@ucl.ac.uk