🔭 Hartung–Boothroyd Observatory

United States · Americas · 42.46°N, 76.38°W

The Hartung–Boothroyd Observatory (HBO) is located atop Mount Pleasant near Cornell University outside of Ithaca, New York (US). It is used mainly as a teaching facility for upper-level undergraduate astronomy classes. The observatory is named to recognize funding from M. John Hartung, a 1908 Cornell graduate and later chemical industrialist, and to honor Samuel L. Boothroyd, the founder of Cornell's Department of Astronomy. The facility was designed and directed from 1974 to 2012 by James R. Houck.

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Country	United States
Continent / region	Americas
Coordinates (approx.)	42.46°N, 76.38°W · view on map

Hartung–Boothroyd Observatory is located in United States, in Americas.

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