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Kennon Observatory
The Kennon Observatory on the University of Mississippi campus was constructed in 1939 and consists of two copper-roofed domes. This image was created by making 200 photographs with a tripod-mounted camera over a one-hour time period Wednesday, Feb. 6th, 2013 and compiling all of the images together to show the earth’s rotation relative to the stars.
Constructed over 74-years ago, Kennon Observatory is still in use today. In the larger dome is a refractor telescope that was purchased from the Sr. Howard Grubb Co. in 1893. It actually consists of 3 co-aligned visual and photographic telescopes; a fifteen-inch f/12 visual telescope, a nine-inch photographic telescope and a four-inch visual telescope.
The smaller dome currently houses a twelve-inch f/10 Meade LX200, Schmidt-Cassegrian reflector telescope with an electronic CCD camera, the SBIG, ST10 with an AO-7 adaptive optics accessory, attached to it. The original Meade telescope mount has been upgraded to a Paramount ME.
Photo by Robert Jordan/Ole Miss Communications
| Sat, Aug 31 |  | vs Furman | W, 76-0 |
| Sat, Sep 7 |  | vs Middle Tennessee | W, 52-3 |
| Sat, Sep 14 |  | @ Wake Forest | W, 40-6 |
| Sat, Sep 21 |  | vs Georgia Southern | W, 52-13 |
| Sat, Sep 28 |  | vs Kentucky | L, 20-17 |
| Sat, Oct 5 |  | @ South Carolina | W, 27-3 |
| Sat, Oct 12 |  | vs LSU | L, 29-26 (2 OT) |
| Sat, Oct 26 |  | vs Oklahoma | W, 26-14 |
| Sat, Nov 2 |  | @ Arkansas | W, 63-35 |
| Sat, Nov 16 |  | vs Georgia | W, 28-10 |
| Sat, Nov 23 |  | @ Florida | L, 24-17 |
| Sat, Nov 30 |  | vs Mississippi State | W, 26-14 |