room is a f/11 C14 Schmidt–Cassegrain reflector manufactured by Celestron of Torrance, California, USA, which uses a Celestron CGE Computerized German Equatorial Mount. The telescope was donated in 1987 to the Observatory as "A gift from the people of the Southern Tier". KAS Telescope in the southern equatorial room is a f/8 Ritchey–Chrétien reflector and German equatorial mount manufactured by Optical Guidance Systems of Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania, US. The telescope was donated by the Kopernik Astronomical Society. It is one of the largest publicly usable telescopes in New York State. The Robert "Barlow Bob" Godfrey Heliostat' is mounted in the main building's physics laboratory/classroom. It is basically two mirrors angled just right to reflect light into an f/12 refractor telescope that runs about down through the ceiling and projects the solar image projected as a diameter white-light image onto the classroom wall. The mirrors track the sun through electric servo motors. The telescope was dedicated in 2014 to Robert A. "Barlow Bob" Godfrey.www.somewhereville.com » Barlow Bob There are a number of other telescope available for use including four Orion Newtonians, one Meade Newtonian, and twelve f/4.2 Astroscan aluminized and overcoated borosilicate glass parabolic primary mirror with a focal length of . A SBIG STL-1301E CCD camera is also available. Amateur radio station The Kopernik Observatory & Science Center has a permanent amateur radio station using the club call sign: K2ZRO. The station is often open during public programs on Friday evenings. The call sign K2ZRO belonged to Kazimierz Deskur, one of the founding members of the Kopernik Society, who built the Kopernik Observatory. Deskur heard some of the first signals from Sputnik, and this led to his interest in amateur radio satellites (the facility has an original Sputnik QSL card). He was an early pioneer in amateur radio satellites and developed a device called the OSCARLocator, a great circle map-like device to aid hams in tracking them. Location and climate The facility is located atop a hill in Vestal, New York, southwest of Binghamton, New York within the Allegheny Plateau. The site lies on the western ridge line of the Choconut Creek, part of the Susquehanna River Basin, a few hundred feet north of the New York - Pennsylvania border. The surrounding area is a product of significant glaciation that has removed any sharp relief of the hills seen in other unglaciated areas of the plateau. The tops of the