Brady Observatory

In 2009, Maureen Brady donated her late brother Kevin's astronomy equipment to UACNJ. This generous gift included a complete observatory with an electric roll-off roof and a 7-inch Astro-Physics refractor on a Losmandy Titan mount.

In 2010, professional builder Peter Karcher and a team of dedicated volunteers installed the observatory at Jenny Jump. Peter and his son Jonathan happened to stop by just as the observatory components had been delivered to the site, and found the UACNJ crew staring at a pile of parts. In a matter of hours they had it framed out, and over the following weeks UACNJ volunteers finished the siding and assembled the roof.

The Brady Observatory saw first light in August 2010.