(L-R) WKAA President Dale Baltimore, Co-Secretary Bob Vickers, Alan Dudenhofer, and John Holland / Copyright 2012 Robert D. Vickers, Jr.
Here is a picture of the telescope at the Golden Pond Planetarium and Observatory, Land Between the Lakes, Kentucky. The observatory is the home of the West Kentucky Amateur Astronomers, hosts of the yearly Twin Lakes Star Party. My wife and I have been Co-Secretaries of the club as well as editors of the Faint Fuzzy, our club newsletter, for the last five years. A few months back, we helped replace the old 12.5” Newtonian reflector with this new 16” Meade LX200-ACF. WKAA members provide hundreds of hours of public outreach per year, and, as far as I know, this is the largest scope in western Kentucky devoted entirely to public outreach. Recently, we received a Clifford W. Holmes Grant from RTMC (the Riverside Telescope Makers Conference) to help with the refurbishment of the twelve foot dome that houses this scope.
