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Airdrie Public Observatory
Airdrie Public Observatory (55° 51' 56" N, 03° 58' 58" W) is an observatory in the town of Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. The observatory is open to the public by request, and is housed in Airdrie Public Library. Airdrie Observatory is the smallest, and second oldest, of four public observatories operating in the United Kingdom, all of which are sited in Scotland.
The observatory is owned and funded by North Lanarkshire Council and operated on their behalf by the ''Airdrie Astronomical Association (AAA)'', a Scottish astronomy society and registered charity. The current observatory curators are Bob Webster and Gavin Bain.
==Cooke Telescope==
Airdrie Observatory is home to a 6" Cooke of York refracting telescope with equatorial mount and a clockwork drive which is used to track objects across the sky. A manual mechanism is used to open and rotate the observatory’s dome.
The Cooke eye-pieces for the telescope provided a range between 60 and 450 times magnification. The telescope was adapted to use more modern eye-pieces. Although the Cooke is not the original Airdrie telescope, it is believed that it is approximately 140 years old and, in its day, would have been considered to be a research grade telescope.
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