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Founded: 1878
Students: 30,235
Endowment: C$746.5 million

Elginfield Observatory

Observatory

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The Elginfield Observatory is an astronomical observatory located in the township of Middlesex Centre, Ontario, Canada, about 25 kilometres (16 mi) north of London, Ontario. The observatory is owned and operated by the University of Western Ontario, and opened in 1969. The observatory features a 1.2 m (47 in) Ritchey–Chrétien telescope built by Boller and Chivens which is used for spectroscopy and photometry. The telescope can be configured to feed instruments at the Cassegrain, Nasmyth, and Coudé foci.^[1] Recent research includes monitoring the changing size of Cepheid variable stars, estimating out-gasing of minor planets, and searching for large Perseid meteoroids.^[2]^[3]^[4]

The observatory was closed at the end of 2010.^[5]

References

^ "The Elginfield Observatory at the University of Western Ontario". The University of Western Ontario Department of Physics and Astronomy. Archived from the original on 2012-02-06. Retrieved 2012-01-13.
^ Gray, David F.; Stevenson, Kevin B. (1 April 2007). "Spectroscopic Determination of Radius Changes of Cepheid Variable Stars". Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 119 (854): 398–406. Bibcode:2007PASP..119..398G. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.495.3147. doi:10.1086/518128.
^ Gilbert, Alyssa M. (2009). From asteroids to comets: Gas and dust production of the small-bodies in the solar system (PhD thesis). University of Western Ontario. Bibcode:2009PhDT.......158G.
^ Beech, Martin; Illingworth, Alison; Brown, Peter (1 March 2004). "A telescopic search for large Perseid meteoroids". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 348 (4): 1395–1400. Bibcode:2004MNRAS.348.1395B. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.07462.x.
^ "Research Facilities - The Elginfield Observatory". University of Western Ontario. Retrieved 2022-08-18.