Photo Gallery

Plan View Blueprint of New Observatory (1949) Photo credit Keith Gleason, Sommers-Bausch Observatory
Construction of the Sandstone Walls (1951) Photo credit University of Colorado Norlin Library Archives
Original South-Facing Wall (new addition added here in 1981) (1951) Photo credit University of Colorado Norlin Library Archives
Dome Skeleton Frame Structure (looking northeast) (1951) Photo credit University of Colorado Norlin Library Archives
Campus Arial View with Just-Completed Observatory (note "Observatory Field")(1953) Photo credit University of Colorado Norlin Library Archives
Sky & Telescope Magazine Cover Featuring Sommers-Bausch Observatory (November 1953) Photo credit High Altitude Observatory and Sky & Telescope Magazine
First Page of Sommers-Bausch Observatory Guestbook (famous names in astro-geophysics) (July 1953) Photo credit Keith Gleason, Sommers-Bausch Observatory
First HAO Staff at Sommers-Bausch Observatory (founder Walt Roberts at front right) (1954) Photo credit National Center for Atmospheric Research
A flyer showing the newly constructed observatory and advertising its dedication on August 27, 1953. Photo Credit: University of Colorado Norlin Library Archives
First Manager Dorothy Trotter and the Bausch 10.5-Inch Refractor (1956) Photo credit High Altitude Observatory Archives
Exterior View of Sommers-Bausch Observatory looking West (1956) Photo credit University of Colorado Norlin Library Archives
Arial View of Sommers-Bausch Observatory and CU (the campus is creeping closer!)(1956) Photo credit University of Colorado Norlin Library Archives
Construction of Next-Door High Altitude Observatory Offices (now CDSS building) (1959) Photo credit University of Colorado Norlin Library Archives
Arial View of Sommers-Bausch Observatory and HAO Complex on Observatory Hill (1960) Photo credit High Altitude Observatory Archives
Sommers-Bausch Observatory and the Finished High Altitude Observatory Building (1961) Photo credit High Altitude Observatory Archives
Solar Flare Patrol Camera (exterior to Sommers-Bausch Observatory on south side) (1960) Photo credit High Altitude Observatory Archives
Portrait of Sommers-Bausch Observatory with Solar Flare Patrol Canopy (1961) Photo credit University of Colorado Norlin Library Archives
Arial View (note appearance of Regent Drive and Kittridge Complex) (1963) Photo credit University of Colorado Norlin Library Archives
Dome Room Floorplan (mods for 24-inch reflector replacing the Bausch 10.5-inch refractor) (1971) Photo credit Keith Gleason, Sommers-Bausch Observatory
Installing the 24-inch Pier through the Dome Slit (1973) Photo credit High Altitude Observatory Archives
The New 24-Inch Boller & Chivens Cassegrain Telescope and Spectrograph (1974) Photo credit Sommers-Bausch Observatory Collection
Using the 24-Inch for Halley's Comet (Keith Gleason, Boulder Daily Camera article) (1986) Photo credit Jerry Cleveland, Boulder Daily Camera
Sky & Telescope Magazine Article on New Fiske Planetarium (September 1975) Photo credit Dennis Milon
The Domes of Observatory Hill (Fiske Planetarium and Sommers-Bausch Observatory, HAO) (1975) Photo credit Gary Emerson, LASP
Blueprint for the Expansion of Sommers-Bausch Observatory (quadrupling its floorspace) (September 1980) Photo credit Keith Gleason, Sommers-Bausch Observatory
New 18-inch DFM Telescope on Observing Deck (clamshell cover and astronaut Alan Shepard) (1985) Photo credit Keith Gleason, Sommers-Bausch Observatory
Heliostat on Open Observing Deck (utilizing 10.5-inch Bausch refractor lens) (1995) Photo credit Keith Gleason, Sommers-Bausch Observatory
Plans for Roll-Off Roof for Observing Deck (1985) Photo credit Keith Gleason, Sommers-Bausch Observatory
18-inch Scope with Director Bruce Bohannan (no, it's not supposed to point downward!) (1987) Photo credit Keith Gleason, Sommers-Bausch Observatory
New 16-inch DFM Telescope under Roll-Off Roof (Summit Magazine, Fall 1988) Photo credit Ed Kosmicki, Summit Magazine
Dr. Frank Melsheimer (DFM) visiting the Sommers-Bausch Observatory 18-inch (the first DFM Scope) (50th Anniversary, August 2003) Photo credit Keith Gleason, Sommers-Bausch Observatory
Grad Student Kelly McDonald and the new 24-inch TI CCD (Summit Magazine, Fall 1988) Photo credit Ed Kosmicki, Summit Magazine
Triple Conjunction over Sommers-Bausch Observatory (Boulder Daily Camera, June 18, 1991) Photo credit Ray Martin, Boulder Daily Camera
High Altitude Astronomy Article (Astronomy Magazine, March 1999) Photo credit Nancy Hendrickson, Astronomy Magazine
Friday Night Open House (2000) Photo credit Keith Gleason, Sommers-Bausch Observatory
Astronomy Day Montage (April 24, 2004) Photo credit Keith Gleason and Stephanie Fawcett, Sommers-Bausch Observatory
Total Lunar Eclipse Party (October 27, 2004) Photo credit Keith Gleason, Sommers-Bausch Observatory
Comet Hale-Bopp over the Flatirons (Niescja Turner & Carter Emmart) (1997) Photo credit Niscja Turner and Carter Emmart
Removing the 24-inch Mirror (Remy Indebetouw and Director Katy Garmany) (1999) Photo credit Keith Gleason, Sommers-Bausch Observatory
White Light Heliostat Sunspots (Nish Rajan and ASTR 1010 student) (2003) Photo credit Keith Gleason, Sommers-Bausch Observatory
Sommers-Bausch Observatory Rainbow (1999) Photo credit Sommers-Bausch Observatory Collection
Springtime at the Observatory (2005) Photo credit Keith Gleason, Sommers-Bausch Observatory