Oakley Observatory

02/06/2026

Hello everyone,
Tonight's open house has been moved to tomorrow (Saturday February 7th) due to the forecasted weather. The time is still the same, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm out at the Oakley Observatory. Hope to see you tomorrow night!
Clear Skies!

08/23/2025

Thanks to everyone, especially our incredible volunteers, for coming out last night to the open house. While we were able to play "Name that Star" all night, we were still at the mercy of the clouds.

We will be having another Open House tonight to see if we get some better weather. It will be a skeleton crew, but we hope to see you (and clear skies) tonight from 9:00 pm to 11:00 pm.

08/22/2025

Come out to the Oakley Observatory Public Open House tonight from 9:00 pm to 11:00 pm! Hope to see you there!

Clear Skies!

08/06/2025

Come out to Hawthorn Park and the Oakley Observatory this Saturday for the Terre Haute Parks & Recreation Department Inaugural Star Party!

The Oakley Observatory will be open starting at 9:30 pm. There will be night hikes from Hawthorn Park or you can drive out and park near the Observatory.

Hope to see you Saturday!

07/30/2025

A huge thank you to everyone who came out to the Oakley Observatory Open House last Friday night!

We've got the final pictures of the M13 Great Hercules Globular Cluster and of M57 The Ring Nebula! These were the images on the TV at the back of the observatory that were being shown in black and white. By combining the images from different filters we made the color images.

Clear skies until next time! ✨

05/06/2025

Postponed till Saturday night.

08/31/2023

Images Colin a research student took using the Oakley Southern Sky Observatory in Australia for research this summer, Tarantula Nebula and Sculptor Galaxy.

08/30/2023

Here are the pictures from the Orientation Open House. There is the Hercules Globular Cluster (M13), the Ring Nebula (M57) and the Whirlpool Galaxy (M51).

08/10/2023

Here are a couple of the pictures captured while the open house was going on. Capture and post processing done by Dr. Melton. Thank you again for coming out.

08/09/2023

We had a great turn out tonight for our open house. Thank you to everyone that came out. I will be posting some pictures soon from the scopes that had cameras attached.

08/03/2023

07/14/2023

A picture I took of the moon a few weeks ago.