Pine Mountain Observatory (PMO) is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by University of Oregon Department of Physics. The facility is located 26 miles (42 km) southeast of Bend, Oregon (USA) in the Deschutes National Forest near the summit of Pine Mountain. PMO supports a wide variety of programs with an emphasis on projects that allow undergraduate students to be involved with many aspects of facility operations. PMO also has robust programs centered on K-12 education and public outreach. The site was discovered and characterized by professors Russ Donnelly and E.G. Ebbinghausen in 1965 when they determined that the sky conditions were excellent and worthy of an observatory being built on Pine Mountain. The first telescope became operational in 1967. Former programs gave high-school students the opportunity to not only observe at PMO, but also analyze data and prepare of a paper for publication. Early programs at PMO helped develop older software programs that allowed K-12 teachers to perform observations remotely and process the data for classroom use. Past research projects included research on white dwarf stars and examining the large-scale structure of galaxies. Telescopes Planewave 14" Telescope The Planewave 14” Corrected Dall-Kirkham telescope and dome are the newest on the Mountain. Construction on the site started in 2015 and the entire system was commissioned over the next two summer seasons, and in Fall 2018 the Planewave started observations. Unlike the other telescopes at PMO, the Planewave 14” has never been used for naked-eye observing by humans. Instead, it uses a very sophisticated camera system to capture the light that you would normally see through the eyepiece and records it as data in a computer. One advantage of having a completely computer controlled telescope is that it can be operated from remote locations - like the University of Oregon campus in Eugene. This telescope, named 'the Robbins' after contributor Kenneth C. Robins, will soon be operated from locations far from PMO by students and researchers from UO and other educational institutions. Because of its special nature this telescope is not often used for public outreach, rather, it is mainly operated by students conducting undergraduate research. This is to prepare them for research as graduate students in physics or astronomy and future technical careers. Even though this 14" telescope is smaller than the others at PMO, it is one of the most powerful instruments at the observatory due to its start-of-the-art