Angell Hall Student Observatory

Can you visit Angell Hall Student Observatory? Yes

Free public open houses on select Friday nights, about 9-11 pm.

A public night at an observatory usually starts at dusk with a short talk, then a line at the eyepiece of the main telescope for the Moon, a planet or a bright cluster, with volunteers' smaller telescopes set up outside. Dress for the night air even in summer: domes are not heated, so the telescope stays at outside temperature. Many nights sell out or cancel for clouds, so check the observatory's site on the day.

What Angell Hall Student Observatory observes

The list does not describe the instruments at Angell Hall Student Observatory yet; the official site has them.

How dark the sky is at Angell Hall Student Observatory

Angell Hall Student Observatory has no Bortle rating in the list yet. The scale below shows what each class looks like.

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.

Angell Hall Student Observatory among the observatories of Michigan

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

The coordinates on this page point to city Ann Arbor (approximate): 42.279°N, 83.784°W.

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Dark sky places, observatories and clubs near Angell Hall Student Observatory

Nearest dark sky places

Other observatories open to the public within 150 km

• Detroit ObservatoryAnn Arbor, Michigan, 4 km (2 mi). Saturday open houses (e.g. noon-5 pm) and special events; Lowbrow Astronomers meet here monthly
• Sherzer ObservatoryYpsilanti, Michigan, 13 km (8 mi). Open to the public on clear Monday evenings 7:30 pm Oct-Apr, select evenings in summer, with EMU Astronomy Club
• Peach Mountain ObservatoryDexter, Michigan, 14 km (9 mi). Free public open houses on select Saturday nights from dusk
• Ritter Planetarium and Brooks ObservatoryToledo, Ohio, 69 km (43 mi). Friday evening planetarium shows ($8 adults) followed by telescope viewing at Brooks Observatory atop McMaster Hall, weather permitting
• Ritter ObservatoryToledo, Ohio, 71 km (44 mi). First Friday monthly the public planetarium program (7:30 pm, 8:30 pm May-Sep; $8 adults) observes with the Ritter 1m, weather permitting
• Michigan State University ObservatoryEast Lansing, Michigan, 78 km (49 mi). Free public observing nights on about 13 Saturdays Apr-Oct, no registration

Astronomy clubs within 150 km

• University Lowbrow AstronomersAnn Arbor, Michigan, 0 km (0 mi)
• Eastern Michigan Univ. Astronomy ClubYpsilanti, Michigan, 13 km (8 mi). Meets Eastern Michigan University campus, Ypsilanti
• General Motors Astronomy ClubMilford, Michigan, 37 km (23 mi)
• Ford Amateur Astronomy ClubDearborn, Michigan, 52 km (32 mi)
• Oakland Astronomy ClubRochester Hills, Michigan, 69 km (43 mi). Meets Monthly Sunday, 7-9 pm

Star parties near Angell Hall Student Observatory

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Angell Hall Student Observatory record

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