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Sugarloaf Ridge State Park is a state park in Northern California, United States. Located in the Mayacamas Mountains north of Kenwood, the park straddles the boundary between Sonoma and Napa counties. The park contains the 2,729-foot (832 m) Bald Mountain and the headwaters of Sonoma Creek including a 25
The observatory is named after Robert McKim, who presented to the observatory a complete astronomical outfit at a cost of over $10,000. [2] [3]McKim was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, on May 24, 1816, and died in Madison, Indiana, May 9, 1887.
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Aug. 25—Sugarloaf Mountain remained closed to the public on Friday as Stronghold, the property's nonprofit owner, looks to ramp up security. On Aug. 19, the Frederick County Sheriff's Office ...
Construction of the observatory started in 1937, and the telescope was first operated in 1939. In 1948, he donated the observatory to Indiana University. [1] From 1949 until 1966, the Indiana Asteroid Program was conducted at Goethe Link, using a 10-inch Cooke triplet astrograph (f/6.5). [3]
The observatory was built on a hill on the north end of the Butler University campus. The observatory's wooden dome was replaced with its current aluminum dome in the early 1980s. The telescope itself was first refurbished over several years beginning in 1995 by AB Engineering of Fort Wayne, Indiana at a cost of approximately $120,000.