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Portage Lake Observatory
The
Portage Lake
Observatory
was an
astronomical observatory
owned and operated
by the
University of Michigan
. It was located near
the village
of
Dexter, Michigan
, about
northwest
of
Ann Arbor
. Construction at the site began in 1948, and the facility was
closed in
1975
.
Other observatories that UM has operated include the
Detroit Observatory
, the
Angell Hall Observatory
, the
Lamont-Hussey Observatory
, the
McMath-Hulbert Observatory
, and the
Peach Mountain Observatory
.
Telescopes
A
reflecting telescope
was built by
Tinsley Laboratories
in
1969
and installed at
PLO
the same year. In 1975 it was moved to
Kitt Peak National Observatory
near
Tucson, Arizona
, where it is now known as the
McGraw-Hill Telescope
.
The
Heber Doust Curtis
Telescope
is a
Schmidt camera
that began
operating
at PLO in 1950. It was moved to the
Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory
in
Chile
in 1967, where it is referred to as the
Curtis
Schmidt Telescope
.
