Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... Projects . ... 2/3-m Telescope . ... Site . ... Donations . ... In 1995, Hughes Danbury Optical Systems (now Goodrich Optical and Space Systems Division, Electro-Optical Systems) donated to Winer a 2/3-m (26.5-inch) Corning Ultra Low Expansion ULE lightweighted mirror. Using this donation as a basis, we entered into a project with a private, non-sectarian school to design and build a telescope for the school and one for us. ...
Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... Projects . ... 2/3-m Telescope . ... Irvin M. Winer . ... Site . ... Winer . ... Site Map . ... In 1995, Corning sold to us a 1.5-m (60-inch) telescope mirror blank made using the process to make the Ultra Low Expansion, or ULE , glass. ... That is, the telescope containing this blank must remain at our facility. ... Sonoita . Arizona 85637-0797 . ... 2013 Winer Observatory. ...
Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... Projects . Asteroid . 2/3-m Telescope . ... Irvin M. Winer . ... Site . ... Science . ... Winer . ... Site Map . ... Winer Observatory began Project ASTEROID in 2004 to build a 2-m class telescope for Near Earth Object science and follow-up astrometry (tracking) and education and public outreach. ... Sonoita . Arizona 85637-0797 . ... 2013 Winer Observatory. ...
... Asteroid . ... In case you didn't hear about it, which you probably didn't: On Jan. 7, an asteroid 1,000 feet across -- nearly three times the current diameter of Marlon Brando -- barely missed the Earth, which is most likely your planet of residence. ... What if this asteroid had hit the Earth? ... As it happens, the American Astronomical Society was holding a conference in Washington AT THE VERY SAME TIME as the asteroid nearly hit the Earth. ...
Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... 2/3-m Telescope . ... Irvin M. Winer . ... Site . ... Science . ... Winer . ... Site Map . Contact Us . Using the University of Iowa 0.5-m telescope, Mark Trueblood took this image of minor planet 2000QW7 on August 31, 2000. This small Near Earth Object is an asteroid that came within 12 Earth-Moon orbital radii (3 million miles) of the Earth. ... Sonoita . Arizona 85637-0797 . ... 2013 Winer Observatory. ...
Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... Asteroid . ... Site . ... The evening of October 26, 2011, Mark Trueblood, Robert Crawford, and Larry Lebofsky used the Kitt Peak 2.1-m telescope to observe Near Earth Asteroid (NEA) 2008 QT3. ... single still jpeg frame . ... The National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) issued a press release concerning Morgan's work on Monday, November 21, 2011 and posted it on the home page of their web site . ... 2013 Winer Observatory. ...
Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... Outreach . Projects . ... Science . ... Participating in Project ASTRO, a national program to assist teachers in grades 4 through 12 in teaching astronomy . ... June, 1990: National Optical Astronomy Observatory, Friday Science Lunch Talks: "Engineering Big Science Projects" . ... May 4, 2007: National Optical Astronomy Observatory, Friday Science Lunch Talks: "The Ohio State University KELT Telescope -- Early Results" . ...
Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . Home . ... Science . ... Mike Schwartz of Tenagra Observatories installed the equipment shown at left in October, 1998 at Position No. 4 of our Sonoita Facility. ... There were no discoveries between October and the end of 1998, but in early January, 1999 Mike discovered his first supernova remotely (he had discovered seven before at his home in Oregon), and shortly thereafter, discovered yet another. ... 2013 Winer Observatory. ...
Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... Winer . ... Mark Trueblood was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1948. ... It was Andy, with the encouragement of Irv Winer, who got Mark interested in telescope building and astronomy again. ... Society for Astronomical Sciences (Robert Crawford lead author) . ... Trueblood, Mark, "The Space Telescope Payload Operations Control Center" in Genet and Genet, eds., Microcomputers in Astronomy - II, Fairborn Observatory (Fairborn: 1984), 11. ...
Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... Irvin M. Winer . ... Site . ... Winer . ... Site Map . ... When you shop at Amazon.com, you can direct 0.5% of what you spend, at no additional cost to you, to Winer Observatory. Go to smile.amazon.com and select Winer Observatory as your charity. The Amazon store then returns you to your account to continue your shopping. ... Sonoita . Arizona 85637-0797 . USA . ... P.O. Box 797 . ... 2013 Winer Observatory. ...
... Epistemology is a part of the study of Philosophy dealing with how we use our senses to know something about the world. ... Yet we know that we can be deceived by our senses. ... If we cannot always trust our senses, how can we ever know anything for certain about the world? ... A branch of epistemology that has come into vogue in the last 10-15 years is the problem of consciousness. ... What relationship is there between our conscious experience and the true nature of the physical world? ...
Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... Winer Observatory gratefully acknowledges the generous support of those listed below. ... We thank our donors and hold them up as models of how corporations in America can behave responsibly in the communities in which they do business. ... Telescopes, parts, and accessories . ... 100,000 . ... Hughes Missile Systems . ... Miscellaneous electronics . ... Terra Universal, Inc. ... EFI Electronics Corp. ... 2013 Winer Observatory. ...
Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... Irvin M. Winer . ... Winer . ... The Irvin Marvin Winer Memorial Mobile Observatory, Inc. was named upon its incorporation in 1983 after Irvin M. Winer. The Winer Scientific Director, Mark Trueblood, met Irv at Wesleyan University in 1971, when Mark had just begun his graduate studies in physics and Irv had just completed his Ph.D. and was staying on as an assistant professor. ... 2013 Winer Observatory. ...
Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... 2/3-m Telescope . ... Irvin M. Winer . ... Science . ... Tom Kaye, an amateur astronomer from the Chicago, Illinois area, installed his Tau Boo campaign equipment at our facility in mid-February, 2000. ... The custom unit fed the starlight to an optical fiber that transmits the light to a bench spectrograph located in the Winer machine shop. ... The daily results from mid-February, 2000 to early March, 2000 are shown on the left. ...
Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... Site . ... Winer . ... Donations . ... PayPal We have a PayPal account where you can donate using your PayPal account. ... Credit Card You can also donate directly from the PayPal site without the need for a paypal account. Please enter the amount you would like to donate in the field in the side bar and click "Donate" - this will take you to the PayPal site and use the link for credit card payments. ... 2013 Winer Observatory. ...
... These images were provided to Winer Observatory by Mike Shade of Sonoita Hills Observatory as an example of the outstanding work done by local Sonoita amateur astronomers. ... All images on this page were taken with a 6-inch Astro-Physics aprochromatic refractor at Sonoita Hills Observatory using an SBIG ST-7 camera. ... Object: Galaxy Messier 100 . ... Date: March 2001 . ... All images on this page were taken with an f/5 Newtonian reflector at Sonoita Hills Observatory using an SBIG ST-7 camera. ...
Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... 2/3-m Telescope . ... Site . ... Roof Status . ... If you select Winer to provide the site and maintenance for your remotely-operated telescope, your telescope will be housed in the modern roll-off roof observatory seen at left. ... The building computer and most customer telescope control computers are programmed to keep logs to assist in diagnosing problems in moving the roof or telescopes, or in controlling the instruments. ...
Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... 2/3-m Telescope . ... Site . ... Commanding . ... In a typical robotic observing scenario, each afternoon, a telescope control computer obtains a set of objects to observe from its home institution from a command or script file. ... The file is then transferred to the telescope control computer at the Winer Observatory in Sonoita. ... The Iowa control computer then begins processing the telrun.sls file. ... 2013 Winer Observatory. ...