Welcome!

The Calvin College Observatory offers a free tour of the Universe to all visitors. It is open to the public clear Wednesday evenings and to Calvin student all clear weeknights.

April feature: Saturn is the featured planet for the month of April. As the season on Saturn gradually shifts from winter to spring, our view of the ring system is ever closer to edge on. Come see how different it looks now compared to this photograph taken a few years ago!

LATEST NEWS: Calvin student Melissa Haegert (physics major, astronomy minor) won a Goldwater scholarship writing about ongoing original research using the Calvin-Rehoboth observatory. Congratulations Melissa!

PREVIOUS NEWS: A new publication: "Lightcurve Analysis of an Unbiased Sample of Trojan Asteroids", Lawrence A. Molnar, Melissa J. Haegert, and Kathleen M. Hoogeboom has just appeared in print. The observations reported in this paper were taken in part by Calvin student Kathy Hoogeboom for an upper level research course, Astronomy 395, and in part by student Melissa Haegert as part of a summer research project. See the link to the article along with links to previous publications associated with the Calvin telescopes on our new publications web page (also accessible from the list of links on the left side of this page).

Observatory Director: Prof. Larry Molnar 616-526-6341
Telescope Dome on campus: 616-526-6435

updated 4/22/08 by L. Molnar