Name | Kitt Peak National Observatory |
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Organization | NOAO |
Code | 695 |
Location | Tohono O'odham Nation, Arizona, United States |
Coords | |
Altitude | 2,096 m (6,875 ft) |
Weather | 72% clear nights |
Website | |
Telescope1 name | KPNO Nicholas U. Mayall Telescope |
Telescope1 type | 4.0 m Ritchey-Chrétien reflector |
Telescope2 name | WIYN Telescope |
Telescope2 type | 3.5 m Ritchey-Chrétien reflector |
Telescope3 name | McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope |
Telescope3 type | Unobstructed solar reflector |
Telescope4 name | KPNO 2.1 m Telescope |
Telescope4 type | Fourth largest on the mountain |
Telescope5 name | Coudé Feed Tower |
Telescope5 type | Coudé spectrograph |
Telescope6 name | SOLIS |
Telescope6 type | Monitors solar variability |
Telescope7 name | Coronado Array |
Telescope7 type | Three solar instruments used for public education |
Telescope8 name | RCT Consortium Telescope |
Telescope8 type | Robotically controlled |
Telescope9 name | WIYN 0.9 m Telescope |
Telescope9 type | Galactic studies |
Telescope10 name | Calypso Observatory |
Telescope10 type | Recently acquired by LSST Project |
Telescope11 name | CWRU Burrell Schmidt |
Telescope11 type | Galactic studies |
Telescope12 name | SARA Observatory |
Telescope12 type | Variable stars, undergraduate training |
Telescope13 name | Visitor Center telescopes |
Telescope13 type | Three instruments used for nightly public programs |
Telescope14 name | Spacewatch 1.8 m Telescope |
Telescope14 type | 72 in mirror scavenged from the Mount Hopkins MMT |
Telescope15 name | Spacewatch 0.9 m Telescope |
Telescope15 type | Spacewatch |
Telescope16 name | Super-LOTIS |
Telescope16 type | Designed to look for visible signatures of GRBs |
Telescope17 name | Auxiliary solar telescopes |
Telescope17 type | Two 0.9-m instruments |
Telescope18 name | Bok Telescope |
Telescope18 type | Versatile |
Telescope19 name | MDM Observatory 1.3 m McGraw-Hill Telescope |
Telescope19 type | Originally at Ann Arbor |
Telescope20 name | MDM Observatory 2.4 m Hiltner Telescope |
Telescope20 type | Galactic surveys |
Telescope21 name | ARO 12m Radio Telescope |
Telescope21 type | One of two telescopes operated by the Arizona Radio Observatory, part of Steward Observatory |
Telescope22 name | VLBA |
Telescope22 type | One of ten radio-telescopes forming the VLBA |
Telescope23 name | DIMM all-sky camera |
Telescope23 type | monitors seeing }} |
Some examples of this include the MDM Observatory which is owned and operated by the University of Michigan, Dartmouth College, Ohio State University, Columbia University, and Ohio University and the Burrell Schmidt telescope at the Warner and Swasey Observatory which belongs to Case Western Reserve University. With 26 independent telescopes, it is the largest, most diverse gathering of astronomical instruments in the world.
The principal instruments at KPNO are the Mayall 4 metre telescope; the WIYN 3.5 metre telescope; and further 2.1 m, 1.3 m, 0.9 m, and 0.4 m reflecting telescopes. The McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope on the facilities is the largest solar telescope in the world and the largest unobstructed reflector (it doesn't have a secondary mirror in the path of incoming light). The ARO 12m Radio Telescope is also in the location.
Kitt Peak is famous for hosting the first telescope (an old 91 cm reflector) used to search for near-Earth asteroids, and calculating the probability of an impact with planet Earth.
Kitt Peak hosts an array of programs for the public to take part in:
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