On October 22, 2009, we invited children from the Genesee Community Charter School to visit the Observatory. Here, Joel Kastner (RIT's Center for Imaging Sciences) shows some of the students where the Keck Telescopes are located.

• Astronomy at RIT
• Weather and events
• Clear Sky Clock weather prediction for Rochester
• NOAA weather page for Buffalo/Rochester area Thanks to the NOAA!
• JPL's Space Calendar
• Map to the Observatory
• Facilities
• We are one of the sites in the Center for Backyard Astrophysics
• Personnel
• RIT offers astronomy courses
  • at the undergraduate level, in the Astronomy minor
  • at the graduate level, in the Astrophysical Sciences and Technology Ph.D. program
• Past observing sessions at RIT
  including observations of WZ Sge during summer 2001 and V603 Aql during summer 2003, and educational events, too
• Astronomical Images
• The Astronomy Section of the Rochester Academy of Sciences
  is Rochester's amateur astronomy club, and it's a great one. They meet each month on the RIT Campus, in room A300 of Building 8.
• Other Interesting/Useful Web Sites

Michael Richmond
Department of Physics
Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester, NY 14623
(585) 475-2538
mwrsps@rit.edu