Agnes Scott College Physics & Astronomy Department

12/06/2024

Hi all! As mentioned, observatory open house is at 7 pm tonight! If you'd like to catch the talk virtually, we'll be moving the virtual links to our other page, the official Bradley Observatory Page, from now on. So, for all your Bradley Observatory needs, including talk recordings and event schedules et cetera, follow the Bradley Observatory page! Thanks! I'll go post over there now...!

Bradley Observatory is the on-campus observatory of Agnes Scott College located in Decatur, Georgia.

12/06/2024

Open House tonight! Come learn about ice on other worlds! Talk starts at 7 pm. Weather looks cold but CLEAR, should have good views through our telescopes but be sure to bundle up!

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11/08/2024

Open house tonight at 8 pm! Weather looks surprisingly okay, so we might open the telescopes after Dr. Tapia-Arellano's talk!

10/04/2024

NOTICE: There's no more Oct 11 event, but there IS an event TONIGHT! The Equinox Concert was delayed to tonight (Oct 4), so please come by the observatory tonight for a great jazz piano show and a planetarium sky show and, possibly, weather allowing, a glimpse through our telescopes! Thank you!

06/24/2024

Hi observatory goers! As you may have noticed, over the past couple years we've tried out having some Open Houses start at 7 pm instead of 8 pm. How's that working for you? Do you have a preference? We'd like to know what you think! If you'd like to weigh in, please fill out this quick poll:

Our Open Houses start at either 7 pm or 8 pm. Equinox Concerts tend to start at 7 pm, and early fall and late spring Open Houses tend to start at 8 pm. For most other Open Houses, we have the option of starting at 7 pm OR 8 pm. Do you have a preference? You can consider factors like traffic, sky dar...

04/29/2024

Worlds in the Solar System You Can Visit, by Cass Marks, with audio this time! Yay!

04/10/2024

This Friday, Cass Marks will tell us about other worlds in our Solar System! The weather looks beautiful this Friday, so please join us for Cass Marks' science talk, our planetarium show, and a peak through our telescopes at stars and planets!

03/20/2024

The observatory's spring equinox concert is this Friday! Join us for fresh fun music from Colin Cutler & Hot Pepper Jam! After the concert, we'll have our sky show in the planetarium. Weather doesn't look great, so we probably won't get to open the telescopes this round, but you're welcome to wander upstairs to see our vintage Beck Telescope where it rests inside its safe, dry dome.

Concert and sky show are inside, so join us this rainy Friday at the Bradley Observatory!

02/14/2024

Open house this Friday with speaker Lydia Miller, teaching us about rotating stars! The weather's not looking great, but we'll be sure to give you a great astronomy talk and a great Valentine's Day themed sky show: Lovers in the Sky! Also, an UPDATE: We have fixed the audio issue in the planetarium + overflow room, so if you do end up in the overflow room, the audio should be much better now! :)

12/01/2023

See you Friday evening at 7 p.m. at the Bradley Observatory! Dr. Robinson will be telling us about supermassive black holes!