Kitt Peak National Observatory

The Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO) is an observatory in the United States. It is 55 miles (88 km) southwest of Tucson, Arizona.

Kitt Peak National Observatory

Overview of some of the telescopes at the Kitt Peak National Observatory
Alternative names	KPNO
Organization	Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy
Observatory code	695
Location	Kitt Peak, Arizona, US
Coordinates	31°57′30″N 111°35′48″W
Altitude	2,096 m (6,877 ft)
Observing time	260 nights per year
Established	1958
Website	www.noao.edu/kpno/
Telescopes
KPNO Nicholas U. Mayall Telescope 4.0 m Ritchey-Chrétien reflector WIYN Telescope 3.5 m Ritchey-Chrétien reflector McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope Unobstructed solar reflector KPNO 2.1 m Telescope Fourth largest on the mountain Coudé Feed Tower Coudé spectrograph Coronado Array Three solar instruments used for public education RCT Consortium Telescope Robotically controlled WIYN 0.9 m Telescope Galactic studies Calypso Observatory Acquired by LSST Project CWRU Burrell Schmidt Galactic studies SARA Observatory Variable stars, undergraduate training Visitor Center telescopes Three instruments used for nightly public programs Spacewatch 1.8 m Telescope 72 in mirror scavenged from the Mount Hopkins MMT Spacewatch 0.9 m Telescope Spacewatch Super-LOTIS Designed to look for visible signatures of GRBs Auxiliary solar telescopes Two 0.9 m instruments Bok Telescope Versatile MDM Observatory 1.3 m McGraw-Hill Telescope Originally at Ann Arbor MDM Observatory 2.4 m Hiltner Telescope Galactic surveys ARO 12m Radio Telescope One of two telescopes operated by the Arizona Radio Observatory, part of Steward Observatory VLBA One of ten radio-telescopes forming the VLBA DIMM all-sky camera monitors seeing
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Related pages

• La Silla Observatory
• Very Large Telescope

Other websites

• Kitt Peak National Observatory Archived 1997-01-29 at the Wayback Machine - official site