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    Nicholas Ulrich Mayall (May 9, 1906 – January 5, 1993) was an American observational astronomer. After obtaining his doctorate from the University of California...
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    The Nicholas U. Mayall Telescope, also known as the Mayall 4-meter Telescope, is a four-meter (158 inches) reflector telescope located at the Kitt Peak...
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    that remains of a dwarf galaxy consumed by Andromeda. Mayall II is named after Nicholas U. Mayall, who, with Olin J. Eggen, discovered it in 1953. SKHB...
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  • singer John Jabez Edwin Mayall (1813–1901), British photographer Margaret Mayall (1902–1995), American astronomer Nicholas U. Mayall (1906–1993), American...
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    after surviving the Contreras fire in 2022. DESI installed on the Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory A section of the...
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    American astronomer Nicholas U. Mayall of the Lick Observatory on 13 March 1940, using the Crossley reflector. When first discovered, Mayall's Object was described...
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  • Mandel". Retrieved 10 March 2017. Osterbrock, Donald E. (1996), "Nicholas Ulrich Mayall, May 9, 1906 – January 5, 1993" (PDF), Biographical Memoirs, vol...
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  • see Osa (handgun) Sun-4m, a model of Sun-4 workstation Mayall 4m telescope, see Nicholas U. Mayall Telescope Meade 4M Community, an astronomy awareness...
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    under a perpetual agreement. The second director (1960 to 1971) was Nicholas U. Mayall. In 1982, NOAO was formed to consolidate the management of three optical...
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    DCT". Archived from the original on 2016-11-04. Retrieved 2018-01-06. "The Mayall 4-Meter Telescope". Noao.edu. February 27, 1973. Retrieved August 19, 2009...
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    unparalleled detail. The new instrument was installed on the retrofitted Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory in 2019. The five-year...
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    Patancheru, India, 12:55 UTC Long exposure of the eclipse above the Nicholas U. Mayall Telescope in Tucson, Arizona Lists of lunar eclipses and List of lunar...
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    studies. Speckle interferometric observations carried out with the Nicholas U. Mayall Telescope at the Kitt Peak National Observatory during 1982–84 failed...
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  • Redshifts and magnitudes of extragalactic nebulae by Milton L. Humason, Nicholas U. Mayall, Allan Sandage 1936 Catalogue of Galaxy Redshifts: The Apparent Radial...
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    Hydra has been operating since 1990. It was originally located at the Nicholas U. Mayall Telescope before being moved to WIYN in 1994. In 2021, Hydra received...
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    Observatory – DCT status". Archived from the original on September 2, 2012. "The Mayall 4-Meter Telescope". Noao.edu. February 27, 1973. Retrieved August 19, 2009...
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  • by Arnold Klemola at the Lick Observatory and named in honor of Nicholas U. Mayall (1906–1993), director of the Kitt Peak National Observatory during...
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    Telescope. May 22, 2018. Retrieved December 11, 2019. Mayall, Nicholas Ulrich (1970). "Nicholas U. Mayall". In Stone, Irving (ed.). There was light: Autobiography...
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    the atmosphere appeared in 1976. Infrared photometry by the 4-meter Nicholas U. Mayall Telescope revealed methane ice on Pluto's surface, which must sublimate...
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    telescope Lick Observatory 120 inch 305 cm 1283 m (4209 ft) 1959 Nicholas U. Mayall C. Donald Shane 3 Harlan J. Smith Telescope McDonald Observatory 107...
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  • Hammond Wright, promoted Wyse and fellow Lick observer assistant Nicholas U. Mayall to the staff as assistant astronomers. The two men were good friends...
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    Telescope (Blanco 4m) was completed in 1974 and is very similar to the Nicholas U. Mayall Telescope that was completed at KPNO in 1973. Testing of the telescope...
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    seventh satellites (moons) of Jupiter. 1940: Mayall's Object was discovered by American astronomer Nicholas U. Mayall of the Lick Observatory on 13 March 1940...
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    Sh 2-140 Nebula Sh 2-140 as imaged by the Nicholas U. Mayall Telescope Observation data: J2000.0 epoch Right ascension 22 19 21.46 Declination 63° 14'...
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  • National Observatory (KPNO), where he helped develop the 4-meter Nicholas U. Mayall Telescope. In 1977, he became director of the Lowell Observatory in...
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  • observed on the night of 17 April 1999, by astronomers using the 4-meter Nicholas U. Mayall Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona. Five additional...
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    1937, and subsequently designated SN 1937D. NGC 1003 taken from the Nicholas U. Mayall Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory. "NGC 1003, Spiral Galaxy"...
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  • Online. Retrieved July 12, 2022. Bruce Lambert (January 11, 1993). "Nicholas U. Mayall, 86, Leader Of Studies on Nature of Universe". The New York Times...
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    Telescopes". Archived from the original on 2009-07-15. Retrieved 2009-08-19. "The Mayall 4-Meter Telescope". Archived from the original on 2009-07-31. Retrieved...
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  • astronomer Marc Aaronson (1950–1987), killed in the dome of the 4-meter Nicholas U. Mayall Telescope of the Kitt Peak National Observatory. His fields of research...
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