Welcome to Lowell Observatory
We hope you find this Field Guide helpful and useful.
NOTE: HCPS = Hendricks Center Science Planetary and SB = Slipher Building
Accounts and Passwords
We used Microsoft Active Directory to create your Lowell account (email). To learn more, visit our Accounts and Passwords page.
Emergency alerts notification
In case of an emergency, Management will notified staff through email and text messages (optional). In order to receive text messages, you'll need to go to the Emergency Form and sign up and IT will place that into the Emergency Group.
Slack
A tool we used to communicate & collaborate with staff and others. To learn more, visit our Slack page.
Lowell Vehicle Checkout
This is a Google sheet that staff can access to from a web browser. Be familiar with the Vehicle Usage Policy before checking out a vehicle. There is also a kiosk setup in the HCPS mail room with login credentials placed on the monitor; this is where the vehicles keys are located. Link to 2021 - Lowell Vehicle Checkout.
Lowell Wiki
Here you'll find Departmental information and others. You'll need to be on the Lowell network in order to access it. Be sure to bookmark it.
Wireless
The broadcast SSID is mars-hill-net. See IT for the passphrase.
Food AKA Free Table
There is a long standing tradition of leaving free food / items you would like to get rid of/share on the counter in the HCPS lobby.
Office Supplies
Random office supplies are kept in the HCPS mail room / printers.
Lowell FUN Groups
These are groups (optional) used to partake in fun activities. If you want to be on them, please email it@lowell.edu.
- switchfridays@lowell.edu - where staff gathers to play Switch videogames, usually on Friday as the name imply; Joe Wagner (jwagner@lowell.edu) and Todd Gonzales (astrotodd@lowell.edu) setup the event
- volleyball@lowell.edu - usually active during the summer and into fall season; Dave Schleicher (dgs@lowell.edu) usually lead the quorum