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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 and a number of 8-inch telescopes. 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 0.4-meter telescope equipped
with a large-format CCD camera,
for use in PHYS 3154 (Observational Astrophysics).
A research instrument, the Spectral Line
Imaging Camera (SLIC), is also located at the Martin Observatory.
This device is used to image ionized interstellar hydrogen gas, as well as
other elements in interstellar space. For more information, see the
Virginia Tech Astrophysics web page. |
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