I saw tonight in the observatory, through Alvan Clark's telescope, the Dumb-Bell nebula in the Fox and Geese Constellation... I have rarely been so much gratified... Of all tools, an observatory is the most sublime... What is so good in a college as an observatory? The sublime attaches to the door and to the first stair as you ascend; - that this is the road to the stars. Every fixture and instrument in the building, every nail and pin, has a direct reference to the Milky Way, the fixed stars, and the nebulae, and we leave ... the Americas and history at the door when we come in.

--from the journal of Ralph Waldo Emerson, November 14, 1865.

General:
Information
Public Nights
Telescope Installation
Population II Cepheid Observing Project

Telescope Operation:
Opening
Closing
Troubleshooting

Instruments:
Imaging
Spectrograph
Adaptive Optics