FACILITIES
"Lie on your back and look at the stars." -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (from Life's Little Instruction Book)
Equipment
UIS’s astronomy program possesses astronomical research and teaching equipment that is among the finest in the state of Illinois:
- 14-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope
- 8-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope
- 8-inch Newtonian telescope
- 8-inch disability-friendly fixed-focal point telescope
3-inch comet telescope- Hydrogen-alpha filter for solar work
- Objective prism
The Henry R. Barber Research Observatory, 25 miles
from the campus under dark skies, includes:
- 20-inch Cassegrain focus telescope (for spectroscopy)
- 16-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope (for photometry)
- Echelle spectrograph
- Diffraction-grating spectrograph
- Photometric equipment
- Three charge-coupled devices (CCDs)
