(Panama Digest) Panama now has an astronomical observatory.
The first for the country and only the second in Central America, after Honduras, the observatory will be inaugurated at 6 p.m. tomorrow, Thursday.
Located on the Technological University of Panama campus in Penonome, the center cost $600,000 to build and includes a Meade 14” LX 200 GPS Schimdt-Cassegrain telescope donated by the French Embassy in 2004, two smaller telescopes, exhibition and conference rooms and a library.
Its first projects include studying the evolution of galaxies, the moon and asteroids and will be directed by Dr. Rodney Delgado Serano, Panama’s first astrophysicist.