UCLA Telescopes

The telescope currently in use for public viewing is a Celestron 14-inch reflector housed on the 9th floor (roof) of the Mathematical Sciences Building. Two eyepieces, 31 mm and 17 mm, provide magnifications of 113 times and 206 times respectively, providing stunning views of craters and mare on the lunar surface, cloud patterns on Jupiter, Saturn's rings, multiple stars systems, star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies.

The largest telescope at UCLA is a 24 inch Cassegrain telescope equipped with an SBIG ST-7CCD camera. This telescope is primarily used for upper division astronomy labs, but it has also been used for public viewing of Mars during the 2003 opposition. This telescope was built in 1964 and originally located on a UCLA-operated site in Ojai, California. It was moved its current dome at UCLA in 1981, but was not in use until after refurbishments that began in 1987 and culminated in 1993.

Other telescopes at UCLA include a 16-inch reflector (currently inoperable due to an unstable mount), a ?-inch Dobsonian, a 10-inch reflector, and an antique 4-inch refractor.