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Welcome to the Observatory's Front Page. Included here are some of the latest news and articles that may be of interest to our visitors. 

FAU's Astronomical Observatory is housed under a four meter diameter dome on the Boca Raton campus of Florida Atlantic University.  We welcome students, faculty, staff and members of the general public to join our scheduled observations or our public viewing events.  Our telescope is mounted on a small platform, at the top of stairs, looking out of the roof of our building, over Boca Raton, to space and beyond!

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Target Observations for Tuesday’s Nov. 19th's Session:

The night of the 19th will offer plenty of things for us to see!  The night will offer a Waning Gibbous Moon, that won’t rise until after 9 pm.  The Ring Nebula and the nearby bright star Vega and its stellar spectra will be available.  We’ll have Cygnus’s Veil Nebulae (NGC 6992 & 6960), the “Blue Snowball” (NGC 7662) and the “Saturn Nebula” (NGC 7009) planetary nebulae, as well as the globular “Jellyfish Cluster” (NGC 7099), to see early on in the night.  And to the south, we may be able to see the Sculptor Galaxy (NGC 253), which is 10 million light years away.  As the Moon will not be near them that evening, they should be good to see. Read more.