Kitt Peak
National Observatory
These are 126 Instamatic photographs I took on Memorial Day weekend 1996 of the astronomical observatory complex on Kitt Peak about an hour's drive west of Tucson, Arizona in the Quinlan Mountains.
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KPNO Visitor Center with the dome of the soon-to-be-completed (at the time) public observatory.
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Sundial outside the Visitor Center with the 158" Mayall telescope dome in the background.
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No, this is not a cow-catcher. It's the exterior of the McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope, the largest in the world.
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The interior of the McMath telescope looking up toward the heliostat mirror.
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The WIYN Observatory which is owned and operated by the WIYN Consortium consisting of the University of Wisconsin (W), Indiana University (I), Yale University (Y), and the National Optical Astronomy Observatories (NOAO) (N).
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Optical astronomers work only at night, so they sleep here during the day. Radio astronomers can work any time of day.
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KPNO's 50" telescope dome.
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Case Western Reserve University Observatory dome which houses a 24" Burrell Schmidt telescope.
