Sheep Hill Observatory
Sheep Hill Observatory is an Astronomical observatory located in Morris County, New Jersey. It features an 18-inch BBC Newtonian reflecting telescope and is open to the public on the 3rd Friday evening of each month, weather permitting.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Boonton station and Saint Clare’s Hospital at Boonton Township.
Boonton station
Railway station
Photo: Adam Moss, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Boonton is a NJ Transit station in Boonton, Morris County, New Jersey, United States along the Montclair–Boonton Line. It is located on Main Street, near Myrtle Avenue and I-287. Boonton station is situated 1 mile south of Sheep Hill Observatory.
Saint Clare’s Hospital at Boonton Township
Hospital
Saint Clare's Hospital - Boonton, located at 130 Powervile Road Boonton Township, New Jersey, is a 100-bed psychiatric facility. Saint Clare’s Hospital at Boonton Township is situated 1¼ miles southwest of Sheep Hill Observatory.
Boonton High School
School
Boonton High School is a comprehensive four-year public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from Boonton, in Morris County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, operating as part of the Boonton Public Schools. Boonton High School is situated 1 mile south of Sheep Hill Observatory.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Boonton and Montville.
Boonton
Photo: Zeete, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Boonton is a town in Morris County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the town's population was 8,815, an increase of 468 from the 2010 census count of 8,347, which in turn reflected a decline of 149 from the 8,496 counted in the 2000 census.
Montville
Photo: Adam Moss, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Montville is a town in New Jersey. It is largely a bedroom community for people who work in New York, but it has a nice small-town feel to it. In 2007, Montville was ranked by Money magazine as the 13th best place to live in the United States and the best in New Jersey.
Lake Hiawatha
Village
Lake Hiawatha is an unincorporated community and census-designated place located within Parsippany–Troy Hills Township in Morris County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Lake Hiawatha is situated 3 miles southeast of Sheep Hill Observatory.
Sheep Hill Observatory
- Type: Observatory
- Categories: tourist attraction and tourism
- Location: Boonton Township, Morris County, Skylands, New Jersey, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
40.91916° or 40° 55′ 9″ northLongitude
-74.40628° or 74° 24′ 23″ westOpen location code
87G7WH9V+MFOpenStreetMap ID
node 5842396236OpenStreetMap feature
man_made=observatoryWikidata ID
Q18357751
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Sheep Hill and Sheep Hill Park.
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