The Hoffberger Astronomical Observatory consists of the Florence P. Lewis Telescope dome and a CASSI small radio telescope.  The Flowers dome houses a permanently mounted 14" Celestron CGE 1400 XLT Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope on a german-equatorial mount.  The telescope can be used for direct observing (i.e. with your eye), with cameras or a CCD, and it can be fitted with our newly-acquired Ocean Optics spectrometer.  We also have three portable 6-inch Celestron NexStar SE telescopes.

The observatory is open to the Goucher campus and extended community for public observing on the Third Thursday of every month, weather permitting.  For more information, click here.

Below are a few pictures we have taken from the observatory.