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Facilities
The Physics
Department maintains two instructional observatories. The Price's
Fork Observatory has a Celestron 14-inch Schmidt-Cassesgrain
telescope. Qualified students may
gain access to the Price's Fork Observatory through the Astronomy
Club.
The Martin Observatory, at the Miles C.
Horton Sr. Center (a facility of the Mary Moody Northen
Endowment and Virginia Tech), has a 14-inch Telescope equipped
with a large-format CCD camera,
for use in
PHYS 3154
Observational Astrophysics.
For more information on research, see the
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| Developed by Virginia Tech physics
professor, Dr. John Simonetti, SIP
is a Java-based educational tool that allows students to
do image
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The 14-inch Telescope at the Martin
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