Red Barn Observatory.

Research observatory · Ty Ty, Georgia

Red Barn Observatory

Red Barn Observatory is a research observatory in Ty Ty, Georgia.

Red Barn Observatory in brief

Open to the public
No regular public access
Bortle class
Not yet rated

Official site

Can you visit Red Barn Observatory? No regular public access

Private; no public access.

For telescope views near Red Barn Observatory, see the observatories open to the public and astronomy clubs nearby; clubs hold free public star parties.

Red Barn Observatory
Red Barn Observatory

What Red Barn Observatory observes

The list does not describe the instruments at Red Barn Observatory yet; the official site has them.

How dark the sky is at Red Barn Observatory

Red Barn Observatory has no Bortle rating in the list yet. The scale below shows what each class looks like.

1 mag 8.0 21.99+ 2 mag 7.5 21.89+ 3 mag 7.0 21.69+ 4 mag 6.5 20.49+ 5 mag 6.0 19.50+ 6 mag 5.5 18.94+ 7 mag 5.0 18.38+ 8 mag 4.5 18.00+ 9 mag 4.0
The Bortle scale. Each panel shows the class number, the faintest star the naked eye reaches at the zenith, and the darkest-edge sky brightness reading of that class in mag/arcsec².

Sky brightness and class come from the World Atlas of Artificial Night Sky Brightness (Falchi et al. 2016, CC BY-NC 4.0), with natural skyglow added, at the coordinates below. Research telescopes are often sited on mountains above the haze, so the real sky can be darker than the map suggests.

Red Barn Observatory among the observatories of Georgia

Dark sky place Research or private observatory Observatory open to the public

Green dots are observatories open to the public, blue dots research or private sites, squares dark sky places; select one for its page. See Georgia observatories for the full list.

The coordinates on this page point to Red Barn Observatory (Wikipedia): 31.388°N, 83.652°W.

Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Open the larger map · Directions. Mountain observatory roads are often gated after dark; go only on a scheduled public night.

Dark sky places, observatories and clubs near Red Barn Observatory

Nearest dark sky places

PlaceWhereBortleDistance
Suwannee River Wilderness TrailFlorida4121 km (75 mi)
Kolomoki Mounds State ParkGeorgia3122 km (76 mi)
Seminole State ParkGeorgia4133 km (83 mi)
Stephen C. Foster State ParkGeorgia2138 km (86 mi)
Chattahoochee County ParkAlabama3138 km (86 mi)
Providence Canyon State ParkGeorgia3141 km (88 mi)

Astronomy clubs within 150 km

Star parties near Red Barn Observatory

Star partyNearDistanceUsual timing
Orange Blossom SpecialDade City, Florida371 km (230 mi)Winter new moon
Midsouth StargazeFrench Camp, Mississippi580 km (361 mi)Spring
Winter Star PartyScout Key, Florida784 km (487 mi)Winter new moon

Planning a trip? Astrotourism in Georgia puts the dark sky places, observatories, clubs, star parties, planetariums and science centers of the state on one map, with the best night out worked out.

Red Barn Observatory record

Every value in the observatories dataset for Red Barn Observatory
ID345
NameRed Barn Observatory
CityTy Ty
StateGA
CountryUSA
Webhttps://cometary.net
Publicn
Lat31.38798
Lon-83.65199
LatLonSpotRed Barn Observatory (Wikipedia)
StatusActive
StatusNotePrivate observatory of Steve E. Farmer Jr. (MPC H68); current activity not confirmed
PublicNotePrivate; no public access
Sourceshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Barn_Observatory

From the site's observatories dataset (observatories_q426). Distances are computed from the coordinates.