Longitude:-110.77639 deg. W or 110 deg. 46' 35.0"
Latitude: 32.18025 deg. N or +32 deg. 10' 48.9"
Height above sealevel: 2875 ft.
Loudon Observatory Weather Page"Clear Sky Clock" for Loudon Obs.
Earth orbit image of the Jim Loudon Obs. location.
The Jim Loudon Observatory is located in the foothills of the Rincon Mountains on the east edge of Tucson. Instrumentation includes a TEC 8"f/20 Mak-Cas, Dynamax6, Celestron 5, an RV-6 Dynascope and other smaller instruments. Augmenting these are several filar micrometers, video and web cameras, an objective prism spectrograph. This equipment is used to: make regular lunar, planetary and solar morphological observations as well as used to measure high proper motion and binary stars.
Contributions of the Loudon Observatory
- The Joy Of Dynamax-6 Observing
- Trip to the Great American Solar Eclipse 2017
- A Myopic History of Criterion Mfg.Co.
- The $10 Spectrograph
- DSLR Spectroscopy
- Past Publications of the Jim Loudon Obs.
- Some great astronomical software!
- Asteroid: 118945 Rikhill
- Asteroid: 164215 Doloreshill
- Asteroid: 80807
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