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Goldendale Observatory State Park Heritage Site is an educational facility on the northern side of Goldendale, Washington, notable for its unusually large public telescope. The state park occupies five acres (2.0 ha) atop a 2,100-foot (640 m) hill.
The James Richard Jewett Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by Washington State University.It is located in Pullman, Washington (US). It houses the largest refracting telescope in the state of Washington.
Pages in category "Astronomical observatories in Washington (state)" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. ... Manastash Ridge Observatory;
The observatory's main telescope was installed in 1971 and is a 32-inch (0.8-meter) telescope housed inside a 24-foot domed enclosure. This telescope is the largest permanently mounted telescope in Washington State. The telescope was used regularly through the early 1980s, but soon fell into disuse.
The Manastash Ridge Observatory (MRO) is an astronomical observatory built in 1972 by the University of Washington. [1] It is located in a remote area approximately 14 kilometers (8.7 mi) west of Ellensburg, Washington, at an altitude of 3930' (1198 m), a longitude of 120.7278 degrees West, and a latitude of +46.9528 degrees, [2] and can be reached by dirt roads from Ellensburg or Selah. [3]
A view from the top of the observatory tower at Mount Washington State Park, where the wind chill dropped to 105 degrees below zero Fahrenheit (-79 Celsius) is seen in a still image from a live ...
Construction of the observatory at Braden Research Farm, owned by Whitman College, broke ground in 2011, and the telescope mirror was placed there in November 2012. [4] [5] As of 2007, the main instrument, then at Rattlesnake Mountain, was "the largest, most powerful, optical research-grade telescope in Washington State". [6]
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is a large-scale physics experiment and observatory designed to detect cosmic gravitational waves and to develop gravitational-wave observations as an astronomical tool. [1]