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Lowell Observatory is an astronomical observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, United States.Lowell Observatory was established in 1894, placing it among the oldest observatories in the United States, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1965.
Northern Arizona University (NAU) is a public research university based in Flagstaff, ... NAU's astronomy faculty led the observations of the NASA DART mission, ...
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.
Meteor Crater, or Barringer Crater, is an impact crater about 37 mi (60 km) east of Flagstaff and 18 mi (29 km) west of Winslow in the desert of northern Arizona, United States. The site had several earlier names, and fragments of the meteorite are officially called the Canyon Diablo Meteorite, after the adjacent Canyon Diablo.
Northern Arizona University Observatory: Flagstaff, Arizona, US Northern Skies Observatory: 2009 Peacham, Vermont, US Northolt Branch Observatory: 2015 London, England, UK Northolt Branch Observatory 2, Shepherd's Bush: 2016 London, England, UK Northolt Branch Observatory 3, Blandford Forum: 2017 London, England, UK North Georgia Astronomical ...
Construction of the 26-meter-tall (85-foot), 19-meter-diameter (62-foot) telescope enclosure and an auxiliary support building began in mid-September 2005. Final figuring and polishing of the mirror, which weighs about 3,000 kg (6,700 lb), was completed by the University of Arizona's College of Optical Sciences. This process took about three years.
After working as an assistant scientist and instructor in astronomy at the University of Wisconsin from 1983 to 1987, she joined Northern Arizona University as an assistant professor of physics and astronomy in 1988, at the same time beginning her lifelong affiliation with the Lowell Observatory as an adjunct astronomer. She was tenured as an ...
The Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO) is a United States astronomical observatory located on Kitt Peak of the Quinlan Mountains in the Arizona-Sonoran Desert on the Tohono Oʼodham Nation, 88 kilometers (55 mi) west-southwest of Tucson, Arizona. With more than twenty optical and two radio telescopes, it is one of the largest gatherings of ...