The Astronomy Program at the Thacher School

Abstract

The Thacher Observatory, first built in 1965 by the University of California at Los Angeles (PI: George Abell) (Vyhnal and Swift, 2018), has been recently renovated with a 0.7m telescope and a cooled, back-illuminated CCD camera for the purposes of research and education. First light for the renovated observatory was on December 10, 2016, however efforts to build a new curriculum at the Thacher School based on hands-on research began in early 2015.