GOODRICKE-PIGOTT OBSERVATORY

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Observatory History

Observatory Telescopes

Observatory History

The 'Goodricke-Pigott Observatory' is a private observatory in Tucson, Arizona [1]
It was formally dedicated on October 26th, 1996 and observations began that evening with imaging of Comet Hale-Bopp.
The observatory is named after 2 late eighteenth century astronomers who lived in York, England in the late , John Goodricke and Edward Pigott.

Observatory Telescopes

The observatory has a Celestron C14, 0.35 meter aperture, f/11 Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope to begin with. This telescope has been upgraded with a new optics lens, a new clock drive and a ST-4 star tracker was attached to the side of the telescope in order to correct a two-minute, ten arc second periodic error in the telescope. There is another telescope dubbed MOTESS (Moving Object and Transient Event Search System) which is essentially a giant camera aimed at the sky.