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Mount Lemmon, with a summit elevation of 9,159 feet (2,792 m), [1] is the highest point in the Santa Catalina Mountains. It is located in the Coronado National Forest north of Tucson, Arizona , United States.
It was built in the late 1960s and first installed at Catalina Station on Mount Bigelow, which is nearby in the Santa Catalina Mountains. [1] It was moved to Mt. Lemmon in 1972, and then re-housed in its current location in 1975. [5] Its original metal primary mirror performed poorly and was replaced in 1977 with a glass mirror made of Cer-Vit. [6]
Mount Lemmon Survey (MLS) is a part of the Catalina Sky Survey with observatory code G96. [2] MLS uses a 1.52 m (60 in) cassegrain reflector telescope (with 10560x10560-pixel camera at the f/1.6 prime focus, for a five square degree field of view) [3] operated by the Steward Observatory at Mount Lemmon Observatory, which is located at 2,791 meters (9,157 ft) in the Santa Catalina Mountains ...
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Mount Lemmon Ski Valley is a recreational ski area in the U.S. state of Arizona, and the southernmost ski destination in the continental United States. [1] Mount Lemmon Ski Valley is located on the slopes of Mount Lemmon in the Santa Catalina Mountains just north of Tucson, Arizona .
Mount Wrightson in the nearby Santa Rita Mountains has an elevation of 9,453 feet (2,881 m). It is the type locality of a species of Noctuidae or owlet moths (see List of butterflies and moths of Arizona) Mount Lemmon is named after Sara Lemmon, a plant collector and the first white woman to ascend the peak in 1881. [11]
C/2019 U6 (Lemmon), or Comet Lemmon is a long period comet with a near-parabolic orbit discovered by the Mount Lemmon Survey on October 31, 2019. [2] It made its closest approach to the Sun on June 18, 2020. In June 2020 it was visible near the naked eye limit at an apparent magnitude of 6.0. [3]
In 2007 he founded the Mount Lemmon SkyCenter for the University of Arizona, which offers public stargazing programs as well as specialized programs in astrophotography. [1] From 2016 on, he has continued work at Steward Observatory , the research arm of the Department of Astronomy at the University of Arizona . [ 2 ]