Crosby Ramsey Refracting Telescope Observatory

One of the smaller, more “personal” but popular like the world’s major refracting telescope observatories, the Crosby Ramsey Memorial telescope observatory can be found at the Maryland Science Center, right at its rooftop. Aside from the Observatory, the science center, located at the Inner Harbor, Maryland has exhibits including dinosaur displays which are open to the public. The Maryland Science Center continues to improve and grow and the latest addition to its modern facilities is a state of the art theater

The memorial observatory has as its scope centerpiece the computerized and improved 8 inch refracting telescope. The observatory bought this refractor from the famous optical lens manufacturing company Alvan Clark and Sons way back in 1927.

And because improvements are done on the Crosby Ramsey’s Alvan Clark refracting telescope – it now boasts of being able to provide and capture astronomical images aside from the usual near earth objects like the moon.

Computerization likewise makes stargazing a lot easier – the refracting telescope trains itself to whatever sky object an observer desires to view by the simple use of commands.

The Crosby Ramsey telescope observatory continues to improve and grow and the latest addition to its modern facilities is a state of the art theater.

The telescope observatory is committed in providing its services to the public, and is open to everyone on Thursdays and Sundays for its sun and star gazing activities.