Observatory

Welcome to Hound Hill Observatory

Hound Hill observatory is home to a 0.4m Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope on an equtoial mount.  It is permanently housed in a 10' fully robotic Home Dome system.This observatory is primarialy for educational and scientific research.  It is currently being used for Astronomy classes at Longview Community College located 5 miles from the observatory.  The scientific research is focused on variable stars in four major programs: Long Period Variables needing more observation, RR Lyrea stars, Four Color Photometry and spectroscopy of bright variable stars. The instruments available are

Instrument in in Blue is the current instrument