Peach Mountain Observatory

Telescopes

• The Peach Mountain Radio Telescope is parabolic reflector built in 1958 with funds provided by the United States Navy Office of Naval Research. Since the mid-1960s it has focused on the monitoring the flux density and linear polarization of radio emissions from active extragalactic objects.
• The McMath-Hulbert Telescope, formally known as Francis C. McMath Memorial 24-Inch Reflecting Telescope, was built in 1940 and installed at the nearby McMath-Hulbert Observatory. It was dismantled in 1958 and then re-installed in a new building at PMO in 1959. UM stopped using the telescope in 1979 and transferred control to the University Lowbrow Astronomers, an amateur astronomy club at UM.
• A radio telescope was completed in 1956, but it has not been used for decades. The control building continues to be used by the UM Astronomy Department.