The public viewing schedule through February 2013 at the Robert A. Schommer Astronomical Observatory at Rutgers is available online. I’ll be making my first night visit on September 12 (weather permitting), so look for a post about the history of the observatory and its instruments in the next couple of weeks.
Observatories and Instruments
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