Moore Observatory
Moore Observatory is located within the University of Louisville's 200-acre Horner Wildlife Refuge in Oldham County, Kentucky. Named for Walter Lee Moore, a professor who taught mathematics and astronomy from 1929 to 1967, the facility was dedicated in November 1978. Currently it is the site of three optical telescopes for remote and automated research by faculty and students, and one for visitors to see the night sky and daytime Sun visually. It also hosts services for remote access and data acquisition from telescopes in Arizona and Australia.
Facilities on Site at Moore Observatory
- RC Optical 0.6-meter Ritchie Chretien telescope (MORC)
- Planewave 0.5-meter corrected Dall Kirkham telescope north (CDK20N)
- Azari 0.5-meter Ritchie Chretien in the Roll Roof facility (AZ20)
- Star Dome and Lili Garden - apochromatic visual refractor for visitors
Other Locations
- Manner 0.6-meter Ritchie Chretien telescope on Mt. Lemmon (ULMT)
- Mount Kent Observatory in Queensland (USQ)
- Planewave 0.5-meter corrected Dall Kirkham telescope at Mt. Kent (CDK20S)
- Planewave 0.7-meter corrected Dall Kirkham telescope at Mt. Kent (CDK700)
- Minerva Australis at Mt. Kent
- Overview of Telescopes and Instrumentation
- Live snapshots
- Live site camera (limited access)
- Live all sky camera (limited access)
- Ionosphere and solar flare monitor
Observing Conditions
- Regional weather
- National graphics
- Astrospheric
- Clear Sky Chart for Moore Observatory
- Sky transparency
- Observatory weather
- Environmental sensors
- GOES 16 airmass
- View Louisville, Kentucky, time and weather
- View Tucson, Arizona, time and weather
- View Toowoomba, Australia, time and weather
- Coordinated Universal Time
- World light pollution map
About the Observatory
Resources
- Open source software
- Open source astronomical image and data archive
- A few images from the telescopes
Horner Wildlife Refuge