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Maynard F. Jordan Observatory is an astronomical
observatory An observatory is a location used for observing terrestrial, marine, or celestial events. Astronomy, climatology/meteorology, geophysical, oceanography and volcanology are examples of disciplines for which observatories have been constructed. His ...
owned and operated by
University of Maine The University of Maine (UMaine or UMO) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Orono, Maine. It was established in 1865 as the land-grant college of Maine and is the Flagship universities, flagshi ...
. Its first telescope was installed at the university in 1901, and was upgraded during the creation of the Emera Astronomy Center in 2014. It is located in
Orono, Maine Orono () is a town in Penobscot County, Maine, United States. Located on the Penobscot and Stillwater rivers, it was first settled by American colonists in 1774. They named it in honor of Chief Joseph Orono, a sachem of the indigenous Penobscot ...
, USA. It is the only public observatory in the state of Maine. Operated by the department of Physics and Astronomy, the eight-inch
Alvan Clark Alvan Clark (March 8, 1804 – August 19, 1887), born in Ashfield, Massachusetts, the descendant of a Cape Cod whaling family of English ancestry, was an American astronomer and telescope maker. Biography He started as a portrait painter and engra ...
telescope is housed under a roll-off roof, next to the more modern PlaneWave CDK20 in its own dome.


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Maynard F. Jordan Observatory Clear Sky Clock
Forecasts of observing conditions.
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Public observatories Buildings and structures at the University of Maine 1901 establishments in Maine University and college buildings completed in 1901 {{Maine-struct-stub