NCKAS - Observatories and Equipment

North Central Kansas Astronomical Society

NCKAS Locations and Equipment

Maps and Locations
Equipment

Viewing Location Maps

Riley Dark Sky site

Head west of Manhattan on Hwy 77/24 to the Hwy 24 turn to Riley, (4 miles east of Riley). Stay on US HWY 77 and drive approximately 200 yards north to the "Flint Hills Flyers Club" airport turn-off on the west side of the US HWY 77. We will be set up on the top of the hill by the hangers. It's a small gravel turn-off that will be on your left side as you head north. It's not very far north of the Riley exit with a big lit up sign so you'll want to watch closely as you pass that sign. Look for some little orange cones we place on the shoulder of the road where the turn-off is located.

Equipment List

Telescopes and Binoculars
- Celestron - NexStar 8, NexStar 11" GPS
- Simmons 10X50 59182 Binoculars
- Orion - SkyView Pro™ 100mm EQ Refractor and SkyView Pro™ 6LT EQ Reflector, 10XT Reflector
- Meade - 16"LX200GPS - Mabee Observatory at Bethel College in North Newton, KS
- Meade - 8" LX90
- TeleVue - TV-102 APO Refractor
Filters and Photo/Visual Accessories
- Meade #911B Broadband Nebula Filter, f/3.3 CCD Focal Reducer
- Lumicon - Oxygen III filter
- Celestron - f/6.3 Focal Reducer
- Baader Planitarium - Baader Fringe Killer
- Thousand Oaks - Hydrogen Beta Nebular Filter
Astrophotography
- Olympus 3040 Digital Camera
- Pentax ME Super 35mm SLR camera
- 3Com HomeConnect CCD WebCam
- SBIG ST-237A CCD Astronomical Camera
- Meade - Deep Sky Imager
Astronomical Software
- Starry Night Pro from Software.com Software
- "The Sky" software from Bisque Software
- Michael Swanson's NexStar Observer List
- Ron Reuter's AstroByte Logging System

If you wish to contact us, you can email nckas@nckas.org

This page updated: 04/18/06 03:01:54 PM