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The station, formerly an Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway depot, doubles as a visitor center and rental-car pickup and is located in downtown Flagstaff. Northern Arizona University is located nearby, as are the Lowell Observatory (where Pluto was discovered), Sunset Crater, the Walnut Canyon National Monument, ski resorts and other ...
The Flagstaff Station is a command which was established by USNO (due to a century of eventually untenable light encroachment in Washington, D.C.) at a site five miles (8.0 km) west of Flagstaff, Arizona in 1955, and has positions for primarily operational scientists (astronomers and astrophysicists), optical and mechanical engineers, and support staff.
The Flagstaff Station was built in 1890. The newer and larger station was built in 1926. It is located at 1 East Route 66. The station now houses the Flagstaff Visitor Center. The station is located within the boundaries Railroad Addition Historic District which was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on January 18, 1983, Ref ...
A new Navy command, now called the USNO Flagstaff Station (NOFS), was established there. Those operations began in 1955. [22] Within a decade, the Navy's largest telescope, the 61 inch "Kaj Strand Astrometric Reflector" was built; it saw light at Flagstaff in 1964. [23] USNO continues to maintain its dark-sky observatory, NOFS, near Flagstaff.
Flagstaff (/ ˈ f l æ ɡ. s t æ f / FLAG-staf) is the county seat of Coconino County, Arizona, in the southwestern United States. As of the 2020 United States census, the city's population was 76,831. Flagstaff is the principal city of the Flagstaff metropolitan area, which includes all of Coconino County, and has a population of
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30th Street Station in Philadelphia Omaha station in Omaha, Nebraska, designed as part of the Amtrak Standard Stations Program This is a list of train stations and Amtrak Thruway stops used by Amtrak (the National Railroad Passenger Corporation in the United States). This list is in alphabetical order by station or stop name, which mostly corresponds to the city in which it is located. If an ...
The NPOI primarily produces space imagery and astrometry, the latter a major component required for the safe position and navigation of all manner of vehicles for the DoD. The facility is located at Lowell's Anderson Mesa Station on Anderson Mesa about 25 kilometers (16 mi) southeast of Flagstaff, Arizona (US). Until November 2011, the facility ...