Fenton Hill Observatory ***********

The Fenton Hill Site, with the Observatory Pad in the center, photo taken September 1998.

Fenton Hill is located in the Jemez Mountains of northern New Mexico, about 35 miles west of Los Alamos at an altitude of 8,680 feet. The Fenton Hill area is still under development, but currently hosts the MILAGRO experiment, RAPTOR, some radio antennae and will host other astrophysical instruments including a radio phased array. The descriptions for some of these projects are provided through links listed below.

The site has also been the focus of an Earthwatch Student Challenge Awards Program for talented high school students funded by the Durfee Foundation.

Current Projects at Fenton Hill

• Phased Array Radio Telescope and other radio projects
• CCD pictures from the REACT telescope
• photos of site from summer 2000
• photos of site from summer 2001
• photos of site from summer 2002
• photos of site from summer 2003

The Site

• Site Description

The Science

• Astrophysics of Transients
• Physics Motivation for Studying Transients
• Template for Studies of Transient Sources

Instruments

• RAPTOR (RAPid Telescopes for Optical Response)
• ROTSE (Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment)

Education and Outreach Efforts

• Transient Phenomena in Astrophysics-Earthwatch Campaign Main Page
• 1997 Earthwatch Campaign
• 1998 Earthwatch Campaign
• 1999 Earthwatch Campaign
• 2000 Earthwatch Campaign
• 2001 Earthwatch Campaign
• 2002 Earthwatch Campaign
• 2003 Earthwatch Campaign
• The Hands On Universe

Affiliations

• Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Institute for Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (INPAC)
• Los Alamos Astrophysics
• LANL group NIS-2
• LANL group P-23
• LANL group T-6
• LANL group X-2