Allegheny Observatory

10/06/2026

This morning the Moon passed over Jupiter. This video shows Jupiter re-appearing. It was captured with a Dwarf3 telescope.

DWARF LAB

09/20/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our Open House on Friday, September 18th! 🔭✨ We hope you had a great time exploring the observatory, learning something new, and getting to know our community. We loved having you with us!

09/09/2026

Some of the teens wrote a proposal to CERN, and while they didn't win a trip to Switzerland to run their experiment, they did win a telescope signed by 5 Nobel prize winners. When it gets here, we will share it around like the Stanley Cup and expect some great stories. They are already hard at work on an improved proposal for 2027.

CERN will award a telescope to the regional student organization based at Allegheny Observatory for its outreach programming.

09/04/2026

Congratulations to Henry Aldous! As an 8th grade student at PPS Colfax, he won the junior Physics and Astronomy division at PRSEF and was just announced as one of the top 300 in the Thermo-Fisher Jr. Innovator Challenge. This is the national science fair for middle school. He collected data for his project on the M34 cluster at the Allegheny Observatory.

08/28/2026

First moon eclipse shot of evening by Eva with the Dwarf3.