Today, the department occupies the top three floors of the David M. Dennison building, pictured above. It operates a planetarium, undergraduate laboratories, and small telescopes located on the top floor of Angell Hall . Observatory located on Kitt Peak near Tucson, Arizona. Graduate students have access to all of these instruments. In addition, students have access to an extensive network of UNIX-based workstations on which image processing, analysis of telescope data, and theoretical modeling are performed.
Information concerning prospective graduate students is available here .
Available here are directions and maps. There are four large projects going on presently at the University of Michigan, along with numerous individual ones. To find out more information, go to this page. The University of Michigan owns all or part of 6 telescopes in North and South America. To see pictures and get more information, go to the Observatories section.