Stokesville Observatory

Stokesville Observatory is an astronomical observatory at Stokesville Campground in Stokesville, near Mount Solon, Virginia, beside the George Washington National Forest. Owned by H. D. Riddleberger of Harrisonburg, it includes a sixteen-foot-diameter silo-style room housing a fourteen-inch Celestron Compustar telescope owned by James Madison University beneath a powered Ash dome. An adjoining shaped room contains astronomy displays and materials for instructional classes, and eight powered piers around the building allow additional telescopes to be mounted.

Virginia · United States