CDK17 at Ole Miss

The Kennon Observatory on the campus of the University of Mississippi was constructed in 1939 and consists of two copper-roofed domes.

Kennon Observatory

The smaller dome currently houses a seventeen-inch f/6.8 Plane Wave, Corrected Dall-Kirkham (CDK) reflector telescope (purchased through the Ole Miss Astronomy Legacy Project) with an SBIG ST10  CCD camera with an AO-7 adaptive optics.

CDK17

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