Club Observatories
The Astronomy Club of Asheville is involved in the operation of two astronomical observatories in the region:
Lookout Observatory on the UNC-Asheville campus and Grassland Mountain Observatory in Madison County.
Lookout Observatory is a partnership between the club and the university, while Grassland Mountain Observatory is wholly owned and operated by the club.
Lookout Observatory during a star gaze
Drone photo of Grassland Mountain Observatory
“The known is finite, the unknown is infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land.”
– T.H. Huxley
Telescope (n): “A device having a relation to the eye similar to that of a telephone to the ear, enabling distant objects to plague us with a multitude of needless details.”
– Ambrose Bierce:
“The Devil’s Dictionary”