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    The Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO) is a United States astronomical observatory located on Kitt Peak of the Quinlan Mountains in the Arizona-Sonoran...
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    Quinlan Mountains. It is the location of the Kitt Peak National Observatory. The radio telescope at the observatory is one of ten dishes comprising the Very...
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    join the operations of the Kitt Peak National Observatory in the United States with the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. On October 1, 2019...
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    MDM Observatory (Michigan-Dartmouth-MIT Observatory; obs. code: 697) is an optical astronomical observatory located adjacent to Kitt Peak National Observatory...
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    WIYN Observatory is owned and operated by the WIYN Consortium. Its 3.5-meter telescope is the second largest optical telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory...
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    initially housed the Burrell telescope, which was later moved to Kitt Peak National Observatory. Instead of Burrell the station was equipped with the 36-inch...
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    McMath–Pierce solar telescope (category Kitt Peak National Observatory)
    solar telescope is a 1.6 m f/54 reflecting solar telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona, United States. Built in 1962, the building was designed...
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    NSF on the need for a national observatory. A site on Kitt Peak, Arizona was finally chosen for the Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO). McMath, along...
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    telescopes at two additional important observatories: Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO) and Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory on Mount Hopkins. Steward is a...
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    to Arizona and can be seen in the distance from the Kitt Peak National Observatory. Baboquivari Peak is a technical summit, meaning that it is only accessible...
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    retrograde direction. Callirrhoe was imaged by Spacewatch at Kitt Peak National Observatory from October 6 through November 4, 1999, and originally designated...
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    Nicholas U. Mayall Telescope (category Kitt Peak National Observatory)
    four-meter (158 inches) reflector telescope located at the Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona and named after Nicholas U. Mayall. It saw first...
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    O'odham name means "Tortoise Got Wedged". Sells is near the Kitt Peak National Observatory. Sells is located at 31°54′54″N 111°52′32″W / 31.91500°N 111...
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    worked at Sacramento Peak Solar Observatory) and one year in Tucson, Arizona (when his father worked at Kitt Peak National Observatory). His father also...
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    for the Advancement of Science. He is astronomer emeritus at Kitt Peak National Observatory. Helmut was born in Helmstedt, Germany, then his family emigrated...
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  • David Rabinowitz (uncredited) of UA's Spacewatch survey at the Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona, United States. The very reddish object has an elongated...
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  • first observed on 2 June 1998, by the Spacewatch survey at Kitt Peak National Observatory during 6 days during which it passed 800,000 kilometers (half...
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    C. Rubin Observatory)[citation needed] CTIO is one of two observatories managed by NOIRLab, the other being Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO) near...
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  • universities financed the construction of the WIYN Observatory at Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO) in 1994. In 2001, the WIYN Consortium took over...
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    referred to as Sandage 96. This cluster is easily visible in a Kitt Peak National Observatory image and appears starlike. Light curves and spectra on the...
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    Nicholas U. Mayall (category Lick Observatory)
    of the Kitt Peak National Observatory until his retirement in 1971. Under his leadership KPNO, and the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, developed...
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    Scotti on 6 November 1991, using the Spacewatch telescope on Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Arizona, in the United States. On 6 December 1991...
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    April 1993, by astronomers of the Spacewatch program at the Kitt Peak National Observatory in Tucson, Arizona. The dark and reddish minor planet is likely...
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    Mount Lemmon SkyCenter. Catalina Station Kitt Peak National Observatory List of astronomical observatories Kuiper, Gerard P. (1972-12-31). "NO. 172 The...
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    observations carried out with the Nicholas U. Mayall Telescope at the Kitt Peak National Observatory during 1982–84 failed to discover a satellite companion. In...
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    pioneering study by Stephen Gregory and Laird A. Thompson at the Kitt Peak National Observatory. Voids are believed to have been formed by baryon acoustic oscillations...
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    Keith Pierce (category Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory people)
    in the development of the McMath–Pierce solar telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona. Austin Keith Pierce was born October 2, 1918, in...
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    is a list of the highest astronomical observatories in the world, considering only ground-based observatories and ordered by elevation above mean sea...
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    (910 mm) telescope, McDonald Observatory 36-inch (910 mm) and 85-inch (2,200 mm) telescopes, Kitt Peak National Observatory Relocation of the 36-inch (910 mm)...
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    Telescope, the Very Large Telescope and the 4-m telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory; infrared data from the Spitzer Space Telescope. These are added...
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