Morehead State 21 m Space Tracking Antenna

Can you visit Morehead State 21 m Space Tracking Antenna? Yes

Space Science Center has a planetarium with public shows; antenna tours by arrangement.

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 Morehead State 21 m Space Tracking Antenna observes: radio

The list does not describe the instruments at Morehead State 21 m Space Tracking Antenna yet; the official site has them.

How dark the sky is at Morehead State 21 m Space Tracking Antenna

Morehead State 21 m Space Tracking Antenna 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.

Morehead State 21 m Space Tracking Antenna among the observatories of Kentucky

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

The coordinates on this page point to zip 40351 (approximate): 38.199°N, 83.444°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 Morehead State 21 m Space Tracking Antenna

Nearest dark sky places

Other observatories open to the public within 150 km

• Cincinnati ObservatoryCincinnati, Ohio, 135 km (84 mi). Weekly Astronomy Evenings (talk plus viewing through the 1845 Mitchel telescope), $15 adults, reservations required; other themed nights

Astronomy clubs within 150 km

• Ohio Valley Astronomical SocietyWest Virginia, 90 km (56 mi)
• Bluegrass Amateur Astronomy ClubLexington, Kentucky, 98 km (61 mi)

Star parties near Morehead State 21 m Space Tracking Antenna

Planning a trip? Astrotourism in Kentucky 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.

Morehead State 21 m Space Tracking Antenna record

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