UWO ElginField Observatory Telescope Closing
The Elginfield Observatory owned and operated by the University of Western Ontario is located north of London Ontario and will be closing at the end of 2010 due to a loss in interest. With cost to maintain the facility rising and retirement of the observatory technician, Professor David Gray of the Physics & Astronomy Department […]
UWO ElginField Observatory Telescope Closing
The Elginfield Observatory owned and operated by the University of Western Ontario is located north of London Ontario and will be closing at the end of 2010 due to a loss in interest. With cost to maintain the facility rising and retirement of the observatory technician, Professor David Gray of the Physics & Astronomy Department at UWO feels there is no need to keep the telescope going with research migrating elsewhere and enough data to study for decades. The observatory featured a 1.2 m Ritchey–Chrétien telescope built by Boller and Chivens which is used for spectroscopy and photometry. The Observatory opened in 1969.
