Elginfield Observatory

UWO has an astronomical (optical) telescope with a 1.2-m diameter mirror and a suite of highly specialized, leading-edge instruments for stellar and asteroidal astronomy. The instruments include one of the world's highest dispersion stellar spectrographs and a sensitive CCD camera for colour and brightness measurements of asteroids. At the Elginfield Observatory, we will see the telescope and its building, the control system, some of the instruments, and the facility for aluminizing the primary mirror.

N.B.: we will go first to Elginfield, then the windprofiler radar. The
tour will be on a car pool basis.

. Here is a recent article describing the exciting ongoing research programs.

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The Clover Radar

The Clovar radar is an instrument to study atmospheric motions and meteor entries into the atmosphere. It is alternated between these two modes. Meteor studies relate to astronomical studies as well as atmospheric ones, since we use the drift of themeteor trails as they are blown along by the wind to measure winds and temperatures at altitudes of 8o to 100 km. The more "standard" atmospheric mode is used to measure winds and turbulence in the atmosphere between altitudes of 2 and 10 km.