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You have gone stargazing there\u2014but did you know that it\u2019s not Cornell\u2019s first astronomical facility (or even its third)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Joe Wilensky<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the sun set during a clear, mild Friday evening early in the fall 2026 semester, visitors thronged the rooftop deck of Fuertes Observatory. The darkening skies were bringing an increasing number of stars into view, and several standing telescopes offered magnified vistas of distant celestial objects. Students from the Cornell Astronomical Society<\/a> helped operate the instruments, managed the crowd, and explained some of the night sky\u2019s visible features.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sreang Hok \/ Cornell University<\/figcaption>
Stargazers on the rooftop deck.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

For more than half a century, the student group has hosted weekly open houses and tours at the observatory during the academic year, with the events open to Cornellians and the local community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a lot of outreach every Friday night\u2014eight to midnight, rain or shine, clouds or not,\u201d says Treyton Grahn \u201927, the group\u2019s president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s a lot of outreach every Friday night\u2014eight to midnight, rain or shine, clouds or not.<\/p>\nTreyton Grahn \u201927<\/strong>, Cornell Astronomical Society president<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

If the weather doesn\u2019t cooperate for live stargazing, there is a museum<\/a> in one wing of the building, showcasing the history of the observatory and of astronomy on the Hill; a collection of vintage astronomical instruments; and an illuminated gallery of night-sky images taken from the site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Renovated and upgraded in the past decade, the museum also features a section devoted to famed astronomy professor Carl Sagan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"visitors
Sreang Hok \/ Cornell University<\/figcaption>
Visitors admire the telescope and dome.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The building\u2019s\u2014um\u2014star<\/em> attraction, though, is located under the cavernous rotating dome: fondly known as \u201cIrv,\u201d the Irving Porter Church Telescope marked its 100th birthday<\/a> in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grahn, an astrophysics major in Arts & Sciences, notes that his fondest Cornell memory so far is \u201clooking through Irv at Saturn that first time; it was my \u2018aha\u2019 moment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Irv is one of only a handful of vintage refracting telescopes around the globe that are still operated completely mechanically, with a hand-wound, weight-driven clockwork system that allows it to track the sky as the Earth rotates on its axis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Says Grahn: \u201cIt\u2019s quite a marvel.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"visitors
Joe Wilensky \/ Cornell University<\/figcaption>
The museum includes an illuminated wall of starry imagery …<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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\"a
Sreang Hok \/ Cornell University<\/figcaption>
… and exhibits of vintage telescopes and artifacts from Cornell astronomy history.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

That evening in early fall, the longest line was to take a turn gazing through Irv at the Hercules Globular Cluster, a glittering spherical ball of several hundred thousand stars. Located nearly 25,000 light years from Earth, it\u2019s estimated to be more than 11 billion years old, making it one of the oldest such clusters in the Milky Way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Irving Porter Church Telescope, fondly known as \u201cIrv,\u201d marked its 100th birthday in 2022.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Visitors also had a chance to view the Andromeda Galaxy\u2014the nearest large galaxy to ours\u2014and got a primer on how to identify some of the most common constellations visible from the Northern Hemisphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to the weekly open houses, the Astronomical Society hosts special events at the observatory, such as viewings of lunar eclipses, and holds lecture series<\/a> by astronomy faculty and researchers\u2014all open to the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Cornellians
Cornell University<\/figcaption>
Fuertes\u2019s knoll has long been an ideal spot to view celestial events, such as the 2017 total solar eclipse.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

But casual visitors to the historic observatory\u2014which was built in 1917 on a high knoll above the northern edge of Beebe Lake\u2014likely don\u2019t realize that it isn\u2019t Cornell\u2019s first such facility; in fact, it\u2019s the fourth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The structure\u2019s namesake, Estevan Antonio Fuertes, was a professor of civil engineering who requested that the University build and equip an observatory for his students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Civil engineers then used stellar observations chiefly to calculate time and position in order to survey land and measure distances.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"view
Joe Wilensky \/ Cornell University<\/figcaption>
The dome is a window to the wonders of the night sky.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

That first building was a small wooden structure on the Arts Quad\u2014on the current site of Goldwin Smith\u2019s north end, to be exact\u2014erected around 1888.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But as central campus grew, the observatory was demolished and rebuilt several times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That first observatory was a small wooden structure on the Arts Quad erected around 1888.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Its second iteration, from 1895\u20131901, was approximately where Stimson Hall now stands. It was completely rebuilt again in 1902\u201303, when a trustee helped fund a more substantial brick facility that sported three domes, on the current location of Barton Hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After that third version was demolished in 1914 to make way for the drill hall, today\u2019s observatory\u2014with its 24-foot diameter steel dome\u2014was constructed on what was then the Hasbrouck poultry farm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Brief History of Star-Gazing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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\"Cornellians
Cornellians line up to view a transit of Venus in the 1880s.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The first observatory on the edge of the early Arts Quad, 1888\u201392.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Cornell's
The second observatory (center left), viewed from Sage Hall, sits where Stimson Hall is today.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The three-domed Barnes Observatory was constructed on the site of the future Barton Hall.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Fuertes originally had no neighbors on North Campus.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>
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It wasn\u2019t until a few years later that money was raised for a suitable telescope; the campaign was led by Prof. Irving Porter Church 1873, a mechanical engineering major who had become a professor of applied mechanics and hydraulics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Church sourced lenses from the University of Chicago\u2019s Yerkes Observatory, which had a pair of surplus 12-inch glass blanks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He then organized an alumni fundraising effort\u2014he donated $1,000 (roughly $17,500 today) himself\u2014to have them ground, polished, and built into a suitable telescope mounting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The
The new \u201cIrv\u201d in 1923.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The instrument was formally dedicated in June 1923, with festivities culminating in a chance for Church\u2019s students and their friends to view Jupiter, Saturn, and the globular cluster in Hercules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA goodly number availed themselves of the opportunity,\u201d Prof. Samuel Boothroyd later recalled in Popular Astronomy<\/em> magazine, \u201cand were favored with clear skies and good ‘seeing.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Top: Visuals by Sreang Hok \/ Cornell University. All vintage images in this story courtesy of Rare and Manuscript Collections.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published November 4, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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