Three commercially produced Meade/Coronado solar instruments used for public education
RCT Consortium Telescope
Robotically controlled
WIYN 0.9 m Telescope
Galactic studies
SOLARIO remote telescope
Astrophotography
CWRU Burrell Schmidt
Galactic studies
SARA Observatory 0.9m telescope[1]
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
Location of Kitt Peak National Observatory
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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 astronomical instruments in the Earth's northern hemisphere.[2]
Kitt Peak National Observatory was founded in 1958.[3] It is home to what was the largest solar telescope in the world, and many large astronomical telescopes of the late 20th century in the United States.[3]
The observatory was administered by the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) from the early 1980s until 2019, after which it was overseen by NOIRLab.[4]
In June 2022, the Contreras Fire led to the evacuation of Kitt Peak. The fire reached the summit at 2 a.m. on Friday, June 17. Four non-scientific buildings, including a dormitory, were lost in the fire. [5] As of Monday, June 20, the extent of damage to the telescopes is still being assessed.[6]
^"ABOUT". SARA. Retrieved May 19, 2023.
^National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO). "Kitt Peak National Observatory". Retrieved February 18, 2012.
^ abLang, Kenneth R. (January 15, 2007). A Companion to Astronomy and Astrophysics: Chronology and Glossary with Data Tables. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 9780387333670.
^Clery, Daniel (October 31, 2019). "U.S. telescopes get a new overseer". Science. Retrieved November 18, 2019.
^"Arizona Wildfire Destroys Observatory Buildings". New York Times. June 20, 2022. Retrieved June 20, 2022.
^"Contreras Fire Reaches Kitt Peak National Observatory". NOIRLab. June 17, 2022. Retrieved June 18, 2022.
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