Outreach at Cornell's Fuertes Observatory (Poster abstract)

Volume 37 number 2 (2009)

Richard C. S. Kinne

Abstract

(Abstract only) Fuertes Observatory on Cornell University’s North Campus in Ithaca, New York, has been rendered useless to research by age and increasing light pollution from a built-up North Campus. However, the Cornell Astronomical Society has adopted the Observatory and has used it to create a growing astronomical outreach program. By creating a popular lecture series and carefully choosing particular astronomical objects to show visitors to the Observatory, the Society is assisting in enhancing popular astronomical education in Ithaca. This poster gives details as to the groups that come to the Observatory, the lecture topics that have been given, and the best astronomical objects that have been shown in light polluted skies.